... The difficulties presented by the rocky nature of the hill and mountain country in which the Fifth and Eighth Armies have recently been fighting have once again brought into prominence the efficacy of concentrated gunfire. This method was, of course, employed on historic occasions in North Africa, where concentrations massed on narrow targets sufficiently weakened the enemy's resistance to ...

... The BRITISH in the AZORES Where the Bases Granted by the Portuguese Have Been Successfully Used in the Atlantic U-boat Campaign i till SI I X 1 Cince the Portuguese Government granted the Allies facilities in the Azores, there have been interesting developments in the U-boat war in the Atlantic Ocean. A joint statement issued by the Prime Minister and Mr. Roosevelt recently declared that by ...

... AROUND THE BATTLE FRONTS OF THE WORLD A Series of Pictures from many War Zones showing Incidents in the far-flung struggle against the Nazis and the Japs CORSICA A STORY OF LIBERATION FROM THE GERMAN YOKE A Patriot band marching along a mountain trail to help drive out the enemy invader. The story of Corsica typified the rebellion of 2 freedom-loving people who refused to be crushed by tyranny ...

... BRITAIN'S NEWEST AND BIGGEST AIRCRAFT-CARRIER: AN AERIAl PHOTOGRAPH OF H.M.S. INDOMITABLE just released for publication. The big Carrier is here steaming at speed with Albacore torpedo-bombers ranged up on her flight-deck 1 1 is not oftbn that such an overhead view of a flight-deck is allowed I to be published for security reasons, as it shows a considerable amount of detail not normally ...

... And Capture the Last of the Big Jap Strongholds in the Solomon Group (see also pp. 3/2-3 of this issue) THE LEADERS WATCH THE LANDING OPERATIONS General Alexander A. Vandergrift (on left), Commander of the invading Marines, and Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson (centre), who commanded the invasion fleet, watching the first waves go ashore on November I from the bridge of an American warship ...

... The New Ruhr Created by the Nazis in Silesia, which is Now Ripe for Attack by Air Described by FERDINAND TUOHY IT is possible and even likely that the first concrete military outgrowth of the Anglo- Soviet-American dovetailing of plans for the joint closing-in upon Germany will take the shape of heavy air attack from south and east on a hitherto immune, though mountingly crucial area of ...

... An Important Weapon Employed by the Enemy in Italy The Blowing Up of Bridges and the Uprooting of Railway Lines, in Front of the Advancing Allied Forces The blowing up of the bridges, culverts and rail tracks has been a feature of modern warfare-- but rarely, if ever, on the scale of to-day. The cutting of opposing lines of com munication has been accomplished both by land engineers and by ...

... ong before the actions in and around the Dodecanese group of islands, numerous naval operations in present war had demonstrated the ubiquity and ...

... Within a week of the surrender of the small Dodecanese island of Leros to the determined attack of German air and seaborne forces, the preliminary opera tions were put into action for an assault upon Samos, the considerably larger island, at the northern end of the Dodecanese group. This island had also been occupied by British forces, supplemented by a certain number of Greek troops. Vanous ...

... HE RE-EMERGENCE OF MUSSOLINI A picture taken at his Headquarters in Northern Italy and greatly publicised throughout Germany. On the right is the discredited Marshal Graziani, who was retired after his many disasters in Libya and who is now Mussolini's right-hand man T.iE WORK OF THE BACK-ROOM GIRLS OF YORKSHIRE A landing craft on its way to the sea after being built 60 miles away 1 he Back ...

... AIRCRAFT DESIGNER, DIRECTOR, GENERAL BOTTLE -WASHER MRS. F. G. MILES. MR F. G. MILES standing by the Miles Master II.. the world's fastest training aeroplane. Mrs. Miles studies a drawing produced by one of the pupils of the technical school which she runs in connection with the aircraft factory. Discussing the design of a new aeroplane with one of the draughtsmen. Outside one of the great ...

... . MAJOR-GENERAL FREDERICK F. WORTHINGTON, C.B., M.C., M.M., is Canada s leading tank expert. After the last war, with the rank of captain he was trans ferred to the Canadian Permanent Machine-Gun Brigade and then to Princess Patricia's C.L.I. In 1936 he came to England to machine-gun and tank schools and the Army Armoured Fighting Vehicles School, and on his return became chief instructor of ...