... PHASES of the WAR EFFORT-- Mainly American ANOTHER PICTURE OF THE NEW CHIN TURRET ON THE FLYING FORTRESS Recently in this journal we published a picture showing the new nose turret installed in Flying Fortresses operating in the European Theatre of War. Here is another view showing how the chin turret provides greater angles for fire and more positive sighting mechanism in addition, it also ...

... AMERICAN FLYING NURSES IN BRITAIN These young women are highly trained, and their work is to tend wounded in special stretcher-equipped planes which evacuate casualties from Clearing Stations to Base Hospitals. Two nurses attend each plane. Here three of them are seen without their leather flying suits and showing their uniforms with wings. A JEWELLED SWORD FOR MR. CHURCHILL FROM THE KING OF ...

... The Epic Story of Two Survivors of a Torpedoed Merchantman rT'he pictures on this page show the dramatic rescue of Ship's Carpenter Kenneth Cooke, G.M., of Bridlington, and A. B. Colin Armitage, of Melton, Yorks., the only two men who survived the terrible ordeal of fifty days on a raft in the South Atlantic. Sixteen men escaped death when their ship was torpedoed. All were aboard the raft ...

... The Er.d of Vicky over Italy Four Dramatic Pictures Showing the Break-up of a Stricken Bomber 1 AFTER THE VICKY HAD BEEN HIT, she drops her bomb-load before attempting to make a forced landing in hostile territory O SURROUNDED BY OTHER FORTRESSES, the pilot is now beginning to pull his aircraft away from the rest of the bomber formation This series of very striking photographs show a Flying ...

... Vivid Impressions Recorded by the Cameras During R.A.F. Raids over Germany and Occupied Europe The three remarkable night photographs reproduced here show how the fantastic patterns of enemy tracer fire are recorded by the cameras carried in R.A.F. aircraft whilst making heavy attacks on objectives in enemy and enemy-held territory. As the planes cross the target area, the camera shutters are ...

... YY/hen the Martin Mars was built as an experimental flying-boat, it was intended to carry a crew of eleven it was equipped with powerful defensive armament and had a capacity as a troop transport for 150 men with full equipment. It carried on board a collapsible motor lifeboat with an outboard engine, as well as several rubber life-saving rafts. At the end cf 1942 the prototype was being ...

... The John Burns Collection Purchased for £6,000 by Lord Southwood >NE OF THE TREASURES OF THE BURNS COLLECTION: The Life of Long Meg of Westminster. This is the Britwell Court-Heber copy, which was last sold in June 1920: it is a small quarto volume published by Richard Bird in London in 1636, and printed in black letter. It is a book on which much of our knowledge of life in London in the ...

... THE THREE LEADERS, MARSHAL STALIN, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND MR. CHURCHILL. Behind are other delegates and advisers present at the Conference on the left is Mr. Harry Hopkins, of the United States behind M. Stalin is M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Secretary alongside him is Mr. Averell Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Section Officer Sarah Oliver, W.A.A.F. (Mr. Churchill's daughter), and Mr. ...

... At one time during the landing operations at j I Salerno it was touch and go some of the credit f saving the situation must go to the hundreds of airborne soldiers, who were flown to the scene of operatio ns and sent straight into battle. They landed in their aircraft, not by parachute this was mac: possible only by the development in rapid airfield strip construction, whereby aircraft can ...

... The Manner in which Our Troops are Advancing in Appalling Weather Conditions in Central Italy GENERAL MONTGOMERY VISITS THE FRONT LINE The Commander of the Eighth Army is here seen during an inspection of forward positions on the Sangro. He has stopped alongside a Sherman tank bogged in the thick mud to hand out some cigarettes to the troops im s :',bobsh UP IN THE HILL COUNTRY A site occupied ...

... A GREAT deal has been written and planned about post-war civil aviation, but little or nothing has been mentioned about post-war road transport. This is due, no doubt, to the fart that civil aviation is a matter of international decisions; whereas our road transport is, on the face of it, an internal problem. But is it? When the war comes to an end there will be thousands of M.T. vehicles and ...

... 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 ...