... INDIAN SOLDIERS FREED FROM THE HANDS OF THE JAPS: These Sikh warriors were captured at the fall of Singapore they were taken by the Japs to Rabaul and thence to Los Negros, in the Central Pacific, to act as labourers. When Los Negros was recently captured by the Americans, the Sikhs were freed. They numbered in all sixty-nine. Here an American officer is questioning the men as they eat a meal ...

... AMERICAN PRESSES IN ENGLAND ROLL OUT THE MAPS OF LIBERATION. Many of these will be needed eight machines run twenty-four hours a day in this press room of an American Army Topographical Unit, turning them out A BIG NUMBER OF LOCOMOTIVES READY FOR THE CONTINENT. Stored on spur tracks alongside two open main lines, this big supply of new and powerful engines is awaiting employment in the ...

... 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 ...

... THE War marches on and so do its outstanding personalities-- a good many of them off the stage with each passing year, for newcomers to take their places, the while a small number of human fixtures draw upon themselves the spotlight through out. Who now thinks of Laval, Petain, Badoglio, Mussolini, Koht, Quisling, Papagos, Reynaud, Deat, Abetz, Cavallero, Antonescu or Baudouin Yet such were ...

... A very considerable number of war maps have pur ported to show the position of the Siegfried Line this has been rendered literally as a line, with little variation in form. In actual reality, however, the Siegfried Line is not so simple. The fortifications, pill-boxes and mortar batteries are not arranged in a narrow strip such as some maps would seem to suggest. The Siegfried Line is a long ...

... The replica of the Japanese battle ship shown on the right has been erected on a desert in the western United States it is used by American air crews to improve their gunnery marksmanship and attain a high degree of precision in bombing. Their skill and patient rehearsal are paying rich dividends in the Pacific, where at least 366 major enemy warships have been definitely sunk since the start ...

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... 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 ...