... roTol O A 1 32/COL SPITFIRE HURRICANE and HALIFAX ARE FITTED WITH 'CONSTANT SPEED' PROPELLERS roTol ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 21 1 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Unconditional Surrender. -- September 8, 1943, may justly claim a touch of the red paint-brush in the historical calendar. On that day the Allies celebrated the unconditional surrender of Italy and the total re covery of the Donbas. Few days in the history of wars have yielded such a harvest of success. it is odd how the human mind reacts ...

... THE STIRLING BOMBER WHICH BECAME A NIGHT FIGHTER A stirring incident during a recent raid over Italy before the capitulation, when the pursued became the pursuer -Drawing by Roland Dayies I The Stirling is amongst our biggest bombers it weighs some 23 tons, and was designed for the job of ferrying a big tonnage of bombs over long distances and not for aerobatics. Yet during its return home ...

... The importance o( specialised Landing Craft for in vasion purposes was first demonstrated in Sicily, and then again demonstrated in the attack on the Italian mainland Starting virtually from scratch Britain and America have now built up vast fleets of craft, all intended to assist in throwing our invasion armies on to hostile shores. When Hitler was contem plating the invasion of Britain, many ...

... One of the arts employed by the Germans during their retreat on the island of Sicily was to arrange ambushes to catch our troops whilst they were advancing, say, in loose column formation before they could deploy. This military term signifies a move ment in one, or possibly two directions -- the troops spreading out in open order and taking advantage of any cover which offers itself. This is ...

... Now that the campaign in Sicily has been brought to such a successful conclusion, and in such short a space of time -- thirty-five days for the islands total subjugation, as against the ninety days which had been planned -- it is possible to name the British and Empire Divisions which, with the Ameri cans, achieved this fine result. The Eighth Army which fought in Sicily was by no means the ...

... In more than three years of war against Italy in the Mediterranean the efforts of British submarine commanders against Axis shipping never ceased. The Italian merchant navy, as well as the Italian Fleet, were whittled down in such fashion that it will take that country many years to replace them. All round the shores of Italy, on the west coast and on the east, in the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic ...

... THE Germans are now holding Denmark by armed force, no longer able to maintain the fiction that it is a free land, enjoying its own Government, under the protection of a kindly Germany. For nearly three and a half years Berlin has asserted that it was a model protectorate, an example for other occupied countries, but the increasing resistance of the Danish people forced the Nazis to take ...

... THE LAWS WHICH GOVERN MODERN WARFARE The Meaning of the Term International Law and How It Applies to Combatants and Nations. By CHARLES GRAVES ALMOST every week public references are made to international law. The general public knows less about it than any other law, if only because the aspiring barrister or solicitor realises that there is little or no income to be derived out of its study ...

... THE HEAVY ARMOUR OF THE ALLIES GOES ASHORE IN ITALY: A SELF-PROPELLED PRIEST BEING DISEMBARKED IN THE TOE This picture was taken within the first few hours of our landing on the mainland and before the news was announced of the surrender of Italy. One week later, the whole of the Toe was in our hands, and the Italians were being exhorted by Marshal Badoglio to join the Allies in ...

... THE ITALIAN COLLAPSE And the Surrender of the Italian Navy The picture at the top of this page was taken in North Africa just before the Italian Navy surrendered to the Allies. It shows the great Invasion Armada which set forth for the mainland just before the news of Italy's surrender was made public. As it approached its destination, it covered an area of approximately 1 ,000 square miles ...

... The Great Channel Invasion Exercise (\n September 9 it was revealed that an Allied major exercise had been carried out in the English Channel by land, sea and air forces, without interference from the enemy. The exercise lasted for twenty-four hours, and the great armada sailed to within ten miles of the French coast. Allied bombers and fighters supporting the operation made over 3,000 sorties ...