... THE BOMBING OF LEIPZIG The Results of the Big Raid carried out by the R.A.F. on December 4, 1943 ist over a month ago, in the early hours of ic morning on December 4, a heavy attack as made by the R.A.F. on the very important erman city of Leipzig. Photographic recon- iissance has now brought conclusive proof I the shattering effect of the raid, when pOO tons of high explosive were showered ...

... SUBMARINES and AIRCRAFT at SEA A Strange Mediterranean Rescue by Submarine and Aerial Pictures of a Naval and Air Combat in the Straits of Messina In mid-June 1943, a reconnaissance Spitfire of the R.A.F. took photographs of a naval and aerial combat in the Straits of Messina. At that time, these photographs were the sole source of information available there were no other reports until later. ...

... NEW MECHANICAL DEVICES Being Used on the World's Battlefields To-day The mainstay of the German panzer divisions in Italy is the tank seen above the improved Mark III. Belonging to what is known as the light-medium category, it is used for operations where mobility com bined with heavy fire-power are essential, and it has featured in most of the tank-to-tank skirmishes that have occasionally ...

... CHE AMERICAN ARMY'S JTEEL PONTOON JETTIES The American Army in Italy have been making use of the special landing piers, or cities, illustrated in three of the pictures reproduced here, these have been constructed at various points during the recent campaign at which landing operations have been in progress. The jetties consist of steel pon toons, which are added to one another from he beach ...

... The Story of the Great Anti-German Resistance Movement and its Implications throughout the Balkans Area IT has been confidently stated that the Partisan forces operating in Yugoslavia are occupying as many German divisions as those opposed to the Allied troops fighting in Italy. The number of these divisions vary from twelve to twenty-five, according to the information coming from the Free ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 228 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Polish Frontier.-- The Russian shells are dropping now on territory which is not Russian. On a section of the vast Russian front, one part of Stalin's tremendous pledge is accomplished. The Nazis have been kicked bag and baggage out of Russian territory. Much has been done, and much remains to do. At this frontier of Poland, Berlin is ...

... Scenes Before and During its Capture by the Eighth Army (See also pp. 78-79 of this issue) TANK OPERATIONS IN THE TOWN WERE HELD UP by a mine exploding in the main street. Lieut. P. R. V. Carr-Harris, R.C.E., explains the situation to Captain Blair CANADIANS MOVING UP UNDER COVER 100 yards from the town to probe the enemy's defences in Ortona. The entrance was heavily mined and protected by ...

... ON THE BRIDGE OF THE CRUISER GLASGOW during the action against the German destroyers. The captain (with binoculars) is seen in the centre {Nnly three days after the sinking of the German battleship Schamhorst in northern waters came the news of another outstanding sea victory by Allied naval and air forces in the Bay of Biscay, despite an enemy superiority in fire-power. As a result of this ...

... A Iter the capture of the mountains of Roccamonfina and Camino a triumph of sheer, hard fighting in the face of appalling weather conditions and desperate enemy resistance the Fifth Army soon found new heights to conquer. Two peaks on Mount Marrone part of the strategically valuable high ground dominating the road from Colti to Atina, parallel with the Capua-Rome road were soon in Allied hands ...

... Sister ship to the Iowa and New Jersey, the mighty Wisconsin has been built for the U.S. Navy at a cost of approximately £18,000,000 sterling. She was launched in the presence of a crowd of 35,000 people. This huge vessel has a standard dis placement of 45,000 tons, but when fully loaded and ready for sea, she will displace 52,600 tons, and will carry a complement of over 2,000. Her armament ...

... TRYING TO AVERT A TIMBER FAMINE by the use of colchinine. Dr. P. T. Thomas at work at the John Innes Horticultural Institute at Wimbledon. Colchinine is a drug which is extracted in the form of a powder from the autumn crocus when diluted with water to the proportion of I 200,000, it can be used to speed the growth of trees and increase their size. Experiments have begun on the seeds of timber ...

... GENERAL SIR BERNARD MONTGOMERY leaves his London hotel for the War Office wearing his familiar battle-dress and black beret with two badges the GENERAL GOES SHOPPING. Soon after his return to London, General Montgomery took a day off to visit the shops. Here he is choosing a number of new books at a well-known West End store. One of them was Lord Wavell's volume on Allcnby in Egypt. Note the ...