... How the Fifth Army was put Ashore on September 9 to Establish a Bridgehead in the Naples Area First pictures of a great Amphibious Operation ON THE VOYAGE INTO THE BAY Lieut.-Commander Malcolm, Commanding Officer of the minesweeper Circe, addresses the ship's company and tells them of the part they are to play AMERICAN NAVAL LANDING CRAFT STANDING BY NEAR THE BEACHES after having discharged ...

... AIRCRAFT. CARRIERS and ESCORT CARRIER! The Two Types which hat, Played a Part in th( Anti-U-Boat Campaign large and the small air-| craft-carriers of the Rovall and the U.S. Navies have co„ tributed very materially to the present highly satisfactory state of the anti-suhmarine campaign! in the Atlantic. H.M.S. /IrdierJ which is shown on the left' was one of the first merchant ships to be ...

... Dcggio airfield was captured early on Friday morning, September 3, the day on which the first landings in Italy were made. The R.A.F. servicing Commandos, with the assistance of sappers, were at work within a few hours repairing the runway and field, which had been cratered in many places by our bombers. Scattered around the airfield they found the remains of fifty-six Axis planes. Many of ...

... In the opening days of November 1942, the Battle of EI Alamein was fought and won. Thereafter, the story of the Eighth Army was one of continuous advance by way of Cyre- naica, Tripohtania and Tunisia. At the last-named, junction was effected between the British Eighth and First Armies and the Americans and Canadians. With the conquest of Tunisia, the task of the Eighth was by no means over. ...

... THE HISTORIC MOMENT WHEN ITALY SURRENDERED UNCONDITIONALLY TO THE ALLIES: THE SCENE IN THE TENT IN SICILY AS GENERAL CASTELUNO (IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES, SEATED AT TABLE) SIGNED THE TERMS OF THE ARMISTICE WHICH PUT ITALY OUT OF THE WAR After the fall of Mussolini, in the middle of the month of August, General Castellano, a high Italian military officer, arrived in Lisbon on behalf of Marshal ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 212 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Armistice-- Interim Dividend of 100 Per Cent.-- General Eisenhower, when he made the comment that the acquisition of the Italian Fleet was in itself sufficient proof of the supreme importance to the Allied cause of the Italian capi tulation and armistice terms, spoke as a soldier. But he spoke, on naval matters, with all the authority ...

... LIKE SHOALS OF FISH, Allied invasion craft approach the Italian shore near Reggio some have already unloaded their cargoes and are returning to Sicily A picture taken by an R.A.F. reconnaissance aircraft during the invasion THE TERRITORY OF SOUTHERN ITALY CONQUERED WITHIN A FEW DAYS BY THE EIGHTH ARMY and now firmly held by the Allies, showing the confused jumble of mountain lands which ...

... pVom the time of the first landings until the final conquest of the island, the Navy subjected Sicily to the heaviest naval bombardments in the history of warfare. We have Mr. A. V. Alexander's statement that more than fifty organised attacks were carried out, in addition to almost continuous support by all types of warships operating on the flank of the advancing armv In addition to thf> Kip ...

... Scenes on Board British Vessels Under Active Service Conditions THE CAPTAIN OF THE WARSPITE Captain H. A. Bertie Packer, R.N., who was in command of the battleship as she led the Italian Fleet in to surrender LIFE ABOARD A CORVETTE A mess-deck scene on board H.M.S. Widgeon at sea. A card-party in progress while one man rests in his hammock, another repairs his clothes and others write letters ...

... THE FIRST CANADIAN-BUILT LANCASTER ARRIVES IN THIS COUNTRY Canada has been busy building these big machines for some time past, but it was only a few days ago that the first Lancaster arrived here. It was flown across the Atlantic and, in the picture above, is seen actually touching down on arrival. The Dominion is now producing aircraft in considerable numbers, some of them being used by our ...

... CIVILIANS ALSO SURRENDER IN TOTAL WAR The Growing Fear Throughout Germany of What May Happen when the Allies Finally Triumph. By FERDINAND TUOHY BECAUSE the unconditional surrender fiat of Casablanca did not require to be enlarged upon beforehand, at least publicly, for the Italians to cease fighting us, does not prove that it should be retained as the last word for Germans also. There were ...

... Recent Pictures from Enemy Territory, Showing What is Going On Within the Fortress Europa, Now Under Threat of an Allied Invasion THE NAZIS MAKE HOLLAND 41 INVASION-PROOF by the ruthless destruction of buildings in The Hague t The ruined Duinoordkerk on the outskirts of the city, where Queen Wilhelmina occasionally Worshipped WHAT REMAINS OF THE HOUSE OF THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER, DR. ...