... One of the last mission carried out by the Scharn horsl was the inglorious attack on Spitzbergen. This was carried out on Sep tember 8, 1943. On that day a large German naval force comprising the Tirpitz and Scharnhorst, with a destroyer escort, raided the lonely Arctic outpost of Spitz bergen, 10 deg. from the North Pole. The two principal mining settlements Barentsberg and Longyear City, ...

... HOW much will the public want to use the air after the war? I doubt if one could find a question to which such widely divergent answers are given. One is launched upon a sky of specu lation, of assertion and counter-assertion. To listen to some, the post-war generation is going to leap into the skies. Look, you are told. how they are all trying to get into the Air Force. That shows. Others, ...

... It was not long after the initial landings that the whole of the Arawe Peninsula was cleared of Japs there after attacks by their aircraft were carried out on the American land forces, but with little effect, three of them being shot down out of the comparatively small number the enemy were able to send into action. The aircraft shown in this drawing, half-buried in the dense tropic vegetation ...

... A BRITISH DESTROYER'S HAUL A captured German l-boat after it had been sailed into tsrindisi Harbour under a prize crew. On the night of November 9-10, H.M.S. Quilliam and H.M.S. Raider, two destroyers of the Fourth Flotilla, intercepted a Siebel ferry with an escort of two German I-boats off Corfu. The ferry, containing ammunition, was blown up with Quilliam s third salvo, and the I-boats were ...

... THE decision of Mr. Ernest Bevin to direct youths from all walks of life into the coal mines on a ballot system has caused mixed feelings and given rise to conflicting opinions. On the face of it, as a means of getting more coal immediately and tiding us over the next few vital months, the scheme would appear to have little practical value. A speaker in the recent debate in the House of ...

... MMMMg H££3ZMl When the Italian Fleet surrendered under the terms of the armistice amongst the vessels taken over by the Allies at Taranto was the midget submarine illustrated on this page. Most of the great Power are reported to have made use of these vessels at various times: the used them at Pearl Harbour and, later, in an abortive attempt in Harbour; the Germans are reported to have ...

... This drawing depicts an incident during a recent battle in the Atlantic when three U-boats were sunk and three others damaged. The Sunderland had sighted two U-boats in company about fifty yards apart, twenty miles from a convoy: both of them were of a large type, powerfully armed, but the Sunderland captain did not hesitate to attack. Depth-charges were dropped in the first attack, but ...

... The MULE TRAINS at WORK A Feature of the Hill Fighting in the Apennine Mountains The Italian Army is once again in the field, but now they are helping to free Italy from their former allies, the Germans. Eoth infantry and artillery units have been in action recently in the Mignano sector of the Fifth Army front. After one encounter with the enemy, the Italian Commander, General Capino, was ...

... Under Which Our Land and Air Forces Have Been Operating In and Over the Apennine Mountains Special Sphere Diagrams and Drawings When the enemy was finally driven from the heights of Mte. Camino, there came the task of following him up as he made his way down to the Garigliano River and across it to the opposite hill mass. This was no easy task, with the goat-paths obscured by wreaths of mist ...

... 1 SUNDERLAND CREW IS RESCUED BY A BRITISH WARSHIP Recently, in the Bay of Biscay, a British flying-boat was shot down by a German Ju.88. For twenty-four hours the crew drifted in their dinghy whilst warships searched for them. Finally, they were located by H.M.S. Starling and taken on board all the members of the flying-boat crew were rescued A NEW BATTLE-CRUISER IS LAUNCHED IN NEW YORK This ...

... A strong concentration of U-boats, which had gathered in the North Atlantic in order to launch a major attack on Allied shipping, was recently decisively defeated by forces of H.M. ships and by aircraft of Coastal Command, working in close co-operation. During a series of engagements, which were fought over a wide area, and lasted intermittently for two days and two nights, a total of five U ...

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