... THE recommencement of air attack on London in a degree reminiscent of blitzing days falls into line with a phenomenon general throughout the Continent: anxiety mounting to anguish in the capitals of Europe as to how they will fare in the climax. Will they get through entire What additional scars, destruction, tragedy, upheaval, may be reserved tor them Europe's capitals, even the oldest, have ...

... FLYING FROM A CARRIER DECK Heavy seas nearly spellj disaster for Lt. Julius R. Brownstein, an American Navy P He was attempting to take off from the deck of a U when he made his near-fatal plunge into the s North Atlantic THE NORMANDIE SAILS AGAIN: The most recent picture of the former luxury liner (now the U.S.S. Lafayette) as she was being towed by a fleet of tugs to her repair berth at ...

... battle-cruiser which forced her baclt into the dry-docks. Early in June 1941 the Gneisenau and the Schamhorst ^ftcr their forays as commerce-raiders in the Atlantic, the Schamhorst and the Gneisenau took refuge in the jPt'ng of 1941 in the Atlantic port of Brest. On April 5, y4l. the Gneisenau emerged from the dry-dock there, ■ft the following day a torpedo hit was obtained on the were joined ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 227 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Commanders in the Field. --There is something still of old- world chivalry in the democratic way of waging total war. As I ven tured to say the other day, if the Nazis were rabbits, our slow-motion, deliberate steps and announcements regarding the impending fortress- crashing would by now have mesmerised them into a dither. When we ...

... 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 ...

... HOW THE AMERICAN ENVOYS TOOK THE SURRENDER OR DIE ULTIMATUM to the German Commander in the city Two American lieutenants, accompanied by a private carrying a white bed-sheet on a pole, crossed from the American First Army positions near the Aachen-Cologne railway, which runs just south of the city boundary, and carried the Surrender or Die ultimatum to the historic city of Aachen. On arrival ...

... Pictures from the Nettuno Bridgehead And Details of the Newest British Anti-tank Destroyer, the Piat Projector NAZIS CAPTURED AT NETTUNO are here seen in a group just after they had been collected on the beach, after the establishment of the Fifth Army's bridgehead AFTER AN ALLIED ATTACK on the German-held aerodrome at Ciampino, south of Rome. The field has been pitted all over with bomb ...

... pHE landings in the vicinity of Rome took place in the area to the south of Monte Albano and to the north of the Pontine Marsh area, which the operation thus by-passed. This region presents some unusual features, but these were not immediately encountered by the landing parties. The sand-dunes, backed by wide stretches of woodland, had first to be penetrated. Two little seaside towns, Anzio ...