... 'The attack on the Tirpitz in the Aken Fiord was made on September 22. Two days later the German official communique announced that an attack on the battleship by submarines of the smallest type had been repulsed and that prisoners had been taken. Interrogation of the crews which took part in the exploit and subsequent photographic reconnaissance leave no doubt, however, despite enemy claims ...

... Midget Submarines of the Japanese and Italian Navies As Used at Pearl Harbour, in Sydney Harbour, and Against Gibraltar It will be remembered that, when the Japs launched their treacherous attack on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941, a number of two-nian submarines participated in the assault. It had been known for some years before the war that the Japanese had been ex ...

... How LAE was CAPTURED by PARATROOPS in NEW GUINEA Two very dramatic pictures from the Pacific War Area The FRENCH TAKE OVER the ISLAND of CORSICA THE SCENE ALONG THE MARKHAM RIVER as hundreds of American paratroops were sown in the dense New Guinea jungle to close the Japs' back door to Lae. Some have landed, but others are still in the air on the way down. Note the very low-flvine aircraft on ...

... THE GLIDER PILOTS OF THE BRITISH ARMY How they are Trained to Fly the Heavy Horsas which can each Carry Twenty-eight Soldiers into Action The news that British glider-borne troops had gone into action in Sicily was received with particular satisfaction at the school in England where, for months previously, glider pilots who took part in the operations were trained. When, early in 1942, the R.A ...

... THE NEW I7-P0UNDER ANTI-TANK GUN They designed the 17-pounder anti-tank gun as the big brother of the 2 -pound er and the 6-pounder anti-tank guns, each of which had been acclaimed the best anti-tank gun of its kind. By one of those coincidences which novelists envisage, the 17-pounder anti tank gun and the tank it was designed to defeat both went into action for the first time on the same day ...

... FROM THE BATTLE AREAS IN SOUTHERN ITALY Drawings by Sphere Artists of Scenes with the Fifth and Eighth Armies in their Northward Advance towards the Volturno River Area A GLANCE BACK AT SALERNO A SCENE DURING THE HOT DAYS OF SEPTEMBER 14-15, when the fate of the Fifth Army hung in the balance during the Germar counter-attacks carrying the British wounded across the shore to the waiting landing ...

... In the Atlantic, in the Far North of Europe, and Around the Shores of Britain Special Sphere Drawings After the great summer lull in the Atlantic, the wolf- packs of the Nazis again became active during September and the present month. But the U-boats have discovered that the Allies have not been idle in the meantime. and several new surprises have been stored up for the merchant-hunting ...

... THE KING AT WINDSOR And Pictures of Other Important People in the Forefront of the News at Home and Abroad MARSHAL BADOGLIO IN SOUTHERN ITALY A picture taken recently at an Italian Naval Headquarters. With him- is Lieut. -General Sir Noel Mason-MacFarlane, who was C.-in-C. at Gibraltar and who is now Leader of the Anglo-American Military Mission in Italy. The Marshal is head of the new Italian ...

... THE SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF GERMANY'S MEANS TO WAGE WAR THE COMPLETE DEVASTATION WROUGHT BY AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES in their obliteration raids by daylight over Europe a graphic picture which shows all that remains of the great Focke-Wulf plant at Marienburg, in East Prussia, after the attack on Saturday, October 9 On pages 1 18-1 19 of this issue we give some of the most vivid pictures ...

... A Special Section Dealing with the Action at Alten Fiord, in Northern Norway, on September 22 With a Series of Special Drawings and Diagrams J n the pages which tollow, in describing the midget submarines which played so large a part in the attack on the German battleship Tirpitz it must be emphasised that the Admiralty have not yet published a complete description of this new and exciting ...

... MARCHING THROUGH ITALY Scenes with the British Army as the Infantry Press on Towards the Italian Capital The events of the Italian campaign at this moment certainly provide an opportunity to explode the popular fallacy about the complete motorisation of modern armies. The drawing by Mr. Osmond given here shows a body of British troops swinging along an Italian road on foot: this does not mean ...

... ARE WE THE LOST TRIBES?! The Second of Two Articles Dealing with British Israel and the Theories Which They Hold. Described by CHARLES GRAVES THERE is another side to the beliefs of British Israelites in addition to presuming the sur vival of the ten lost tribes. Its members believe that the Pyramid at Gizeh prophetically tells the future, from the Autumnal Equinox of 4000 B.C. to September ...