... T*he Huertgen Forest lies to the south-east of Aachen it is no mere wooded area, but a dense pine-forest situated on high ground, broken by deep gullies, having precipitous slopes. There are scarcely any roads, only forest tracks, along which are concealed pill-boxes and trenches. General Hodges began an attack through the forest on November 2, sending the men of the First Army into action for ...

... Air navigation in wartime presents a peculiar paradox-- it is theoretically much simpler than sea navigation, in practice much more difficult due to the conditions under which the airman works. No single-handed aviator bothers with astro-navigation-- he flies by so-called dead reckoning. In other words, he flies by the map and estimates his position by the simple arithmetical process of so ...

... At the beginning of July the Allied Army around Caen had closed in around the city ready for the final assault. Constant pressure had been exerted all along the winding line from the Caen Canal, round through the Caen-Bayeux main road, down towards the Odon valley by way of Tilly, Grainville, Gavrus and Bretteville-sur-Odon. Forward units of the Allied Army had forced their way across the Odon ...

... The three-pronged (or possibly four-pronged) attack upon Assam is now seen to have as its object the isolating of Imphal, the main Allied base, by cutting across all the roads which converge upon the capital city of Manipur. The forces which branched off towards the Tiddim road, where the usual tactics were followed of placing road blocks, have not made much progress. The British formed ...

... The clearing of the Germans from the Maas pocket-- flat ground, seamed with canals and waterways running across marshy land on which no tanks could travel-- was a difficult task. Every village and road crossing had to be fought for, yard by yard. The target for the Allies was the town of Venlo, which lies astride the Maas, now swollen with rains. On the farther shore, a few miles from the ...

... YY/hen the main historical section of Caen had been occupied, attention swung to the southern suburb of Vaucelles, where the Germans had taken up a position along the southern bank of the Orne and had destroyed the bridges connecting Vaucelles with the main portion of Caen. The view given here shows this industrial section which lies to the south of the Hippodrome and the water meadows which ...

... In the fighting which led up to the fall of Cherbourg on June 26, some of the heaviest battles took place on the central southern sector of the German perimeter protecting the town and naval base. The above drawing is taken from the high ground overlooking the final valley through which the U.S. infantry had to advance against the main defence positions. Below on the left is Martinvast and its ...

... ^■■.r-*>f.!IN,T4J.l^rT77^ryTg7T^M A t the beginning of November the Germans had held a strong and almost straight line from Trier down to the Belfort Gap, with the Vosges Mountains protecting Alsace, that much- desired province which was incorporated into the Reich by Hitler after the fall of France in 1940. By November 25 all this had been lost to the enemy, who had been driven from Metz, the ...

... HOW THE R.A.F. BOMB BY NIGHT A WONDERFUL IMPRESSION OF THE GREAT TOWN OF STETTIN, Germany's largest Baltic port, as it was illuminated by flares dropped by Pathfinders for the big attack on the night of January 5-6 Stettin is not only the largest German port on the Baltic it is also the key supply centre for the German armies fighting on the North Russian fronts. On the night of Wednesday, ...

... Cherbourg lies at the northern end of what is known as the Cotentin Peninsula. Its capture was the first task of the American forces landed at the hase of the peninsula, who worked their way northwards in dramatic fashion and despite heavy opposition from the enemy. For an invading army, Cherbourg is a prize worth getting. Before the war, the town was a strongly-fortified station of the French ...

... wmmgmtmssm ■iuiimaaaiH What most people want to know about the Marshall, Caroline and other groups is not so much the bald information obtainable from geography books as the intimate detail of close, personal acquaintance. Briefly, an island in the Marshall and Caroline groups is either a submarine mountain peeping above the surface of the sea, or an accretion of coral built upon a completely ...

... A modern invasion from the sea is an awesome sight, and the Invasion of Normandy was the greatest of all invasions yet. As dawn came on the 6th, the Fleet could be seen stretching to the horizon in each direction along the coast. It comprised a fantastic array of vessels, of which it was only possible for one man to see a segment. The ships ranged from tiny crsft which fought the choppy seas, ...