... SETTING OUT FOR THE NETTUNO BEACHES British soldiers going aboard the transports hand over their embarkation tickets. It is now known that the Invasion Fleet of the Fifth Army sailed from Naples HOW THc TANK LANDING CRAFT MOORED AT THE NETTUNO BEACHES. The unloading was done at a pontoon the tractor on the left was used as anchorage for the pontoon bridge, securing the end to the beach THE ...

... THE French people always knew that this war would reach a climax for them in the form of a reign of terror, and that the Terror would as assuredly produce its man. This is now in process of happening, and may be read in direct relationship to the prospect of Allied invasion. Armed, paid and watched over by the Germans, a several-sided French force, topped by a militia, has assumed a free hand ...

... new type escort carriers, specially evolved during the progress of the present war, have been co-operating with Allied war ships in the Atlantic for some time, helping to protect the convoys. They work in conjunction with destroyers or sloops but, although they form part of the protective network, they operate largely independently. Searches are flown all day from the escort carriers, and a ...

... LOST IN THE FOG-- THE FLYING FORTRESS WHICH RETURNED TO BRITAIN, but which then disappeared and was never seen again- Drawing by Roland Davies Two Flying Fortresses that were heard, but never seen, somewhere in a great curtain of fog over England after recent raids on Germany have been listed as missing in action. The mystery of their disappearance is still un solved. Returning crews reported ...

... pH THE U.S.S. LAFAYETTE, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE NORMANDIE, CRACK FRENCH LINER, being towed to an East Coast shipyard for conversion into an American transport. This is the vessel which sank at her berth in New York after a disastrous fire she was raised after months of hard work and is now to be refitted at a cost of some millions of dollars. All her superstructure was cut away under water, ...

... THE YORK the world's most modern transport plane With the return of peace, the wings of commerce will once more take the air. In the front rank of post-war air transport will be the York the world's most modern transport plane. Powered with four Rolls-Royce Merlin engines it represents Britain's newest contribudon to the commercial aviadon of tomorrow. ROLLS-ROYCE MERLIN ENGINES For Speed and ...

... GOING UP INTO ACTION ON THE ITALIAN FRONT AN AMERICAN MIO TANK-DESTROYER thunders over a bridge in the Acquafondata area, on its way to help in the spearhead of the push against the German Gustav Line around Cassino Whilst the Allied forces were moving inland from the Anzio and Nettuno bridgeheads, the Fifth Army around Cassino launched a strong attack against the so- called Gustav Line, where ...

... On the BEACHES at ANZIO H| Scenes During the Landings by the Fifth Army 1 SCENE AS THE ALLIED VEHICLES DISEMBARKED FROM THE LANDING-CRAFT ON TO THE SANDY STRIP OF BEACH NEAR ANZIO A group of Bren-gun carriers, supported by a tank, line up for the advance into the interior a picture taken shortly after the first invasion groups went ashore. Within a few days, the advance guard had reached a ...

... A CHEERFUL GROUP IN FRONT OF A LARGE-SCALE MAP OF THE CONTINENT. On the left are Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Naval Commander and General Eisenhower, Supreme Commander. On the right are Air Chief-Marshal Sir T. Leigh-Mallory, Air Commander-in-Chief Air Chief-Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander and General Sir Bernard Montgomery, C.-in-C., British Group of Armies A CLOSE-UP OF ...

... 'The chief feature of the Rome landing (as it now has become known) was that it took place in close proximity to two very popular Italian sea bathing resorts, situated some miles down the coast from where the Tiber flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Both these resorts are sheltered by a small cape, or promontory, where the long, unbroken sweep of shore turns eastwards. Anzio is, in fact, divided ...

... ft SOLDIER'S SOLDIER in the Pacific war zone. This is an American whose name may soon become a familiar one to British readers. He is Lieut.- General Walter Kreuger, one of the out standing commanders in the present Pacific offensive his assignment to this area was the result of a specific request by General MacArthur, who has great admiration for his record as a tactician. General Kreuger has ...

... 'The city of Leningrad has been completely freed of the enemy block ade, was the announcement of General Govorov on January 27, which was greeted by the long- suffering citizens with the greatest rejoicing. Ever since August 1941, when Hitler sent powerful forces to reduce the city, the people of Lenin grad have been cut off from the rest of Russia, enduring the greatest hardships, from the ...