... This drawing depicts an incident during a recent battle in the Atlantic when three U-boats were sunk and three others damaged. The Sunderland had sighted two U-boats in company about fifty yards apart, twenty miles from a convoy: both of them were of a large type, powerfully armed, but the Sunderland captain did not hesitate to attack. Depth-charges were dropped in the first attack, but ...

... The MULE TRAINS at WORK A Feature of the Hill Fighting in the Apennine Mountains The Italian Army is once again in the field, but now they are helping to free Italy from their former allies, the Germans. Eoth infantry and artillery units have been in action recently in the Mignano sector of the Fifth Army front. After one encounter with the enemy, the Italian Commander, General Capino, was ...

... Under Which Our Land and Air Forces Have Been Operating In and Over the Apennine Mountains Special Sphere Diagrams and Drawings When the enemy was finally driven from the heights of Mte. Camino, there came the task of following him up as he made his way down to the Garigliano River and across it to the opposite hill mass. This was no easy task, with the goat-paths obscured by wreaths of mist ...

... 1 SUNDERLAND CREW IS RESCUED BY A BRITISH WARSHIP Recently, in the Bay of Biscay, a British flying-boat was shot down by a German Ju.88. For twenty-four hours the crew drifted in their dinghy whilst warships searched for them. Finally, they were located by H.M.S. Starling and taken on board all the members of the flying-boat crew were rescued A NEW BATTLE-CRUISER IS LAUNCHED IN NEW YORK This ...

... A strong concentration of U-boats, which had gathered in the North Atlantic in order to launch a major attack on Allied shipping, was recently decisively defeated by forces of H.M. ships and by aircraft of Coastal Command, working in close co-operation. During a series of engagements, which were fought over a wide area, and lasted intermittently for two days and two nights, a total of five U ...

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... Myitkyina has long been the objective to which the Allied forces under General Stilwell have been pressing forward in Northern Burma, racing against time to reach the shelter of the town before the monsoon descends in full force. It was on May 17 that the Japs were surprised by the sudden appearance of Brig.-General Merrill's American and Chinese troops, who pounced upon the main airfield, ...

... When the massed attack of the Allied forces was launched against the Gustav Line, stretching rom north of Monte Cassino down to the seashore, south-west of Minturno, attention was first con centrated upon the heroic efforts of the sappers to bridge the Rapido under intense enemy crossfire. When this gallant effort was successfully accom plished, attention soon turned to some spectacular ...

... Qn April 22, General Douglas MacArthur launched his offensive against the Japs in Dutch New Guinea by invading the Hollandia district on i hat huge island. American soldiers, storming ashore at three points along a 150-mile stretch of coastline, quickly captured the town of Hollandia itself and three important enemy aerodromes. The invasion was made by way of Hollandia at Tanahmerah Bay, 35 ...

... OF CABBAGES AND KINGS-- In the bad old days, before world war was the usual thing, I used often to walk through kitchen gardens-- my own and other peoples-- and enjoy with aesthetic pleasure the trim green orderliness which promised so many good things to come. I liked best to go round these vegetable gardens in early May and observe the beautifully-ruled lines of peas twining among their ...

... UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THEIR OWN DEADLY SO-CALIBRE GUNS, Flying Fortresses let go their bombs over the target. The Forts are simultaneously waging a twofold war against fighters in the air, and the German war machine on the ground BEFORE THE ATTACK BY THE U.S. EIGHTH AIR FORCE BOMBERS. The main factory building, work shops and machine shops of the Messerschmitt MO components plant located at ...

... HThree mortar sergeants of the Fifth Army Have just given an account of the battle depicted above. There were so many Gpnnans, said one, that we were switching our mortar targets every second to stop them. We fired with reduced charges and aimed without using our sights. We lobbed tMj mortars in among the enemy and saw the havoc the) caused. We couldn't miss. The Nazis had, apparently ...