... HOW THE EQUIPMENT FOR INVASION GOES ASHORE TO THE BRIDGEHEADS A PICTURE FROM THE CAPE GLOUCESTER REGION OF NEW BRITAIN, showing how a supply ship carries its stores to the beaches for the parties already landed With the invasion of Europe coming ever closer, this picture from the South-West Pacific gives a vivid impression of the complexity involved in a landing on hostile shores. The Tank ...

... HOW A 4,000 -POUNDER IS LOADED Shown for the First Time in Two Impressive Pictures fust Released THE 4,000-LB. BOMB BEING HOISTED INTO THE BOMB BAY OF A LANCASTER by means of winches in the body of the aircraft. On either side are incendiary containers, each of which contains over a hundred bombs. These are only a part of the load carried by each Lancaster during the R.A.F. raids over Germany ...

... TWO VIEWS OF NETTUNO, THE ITALIAN COAST TOWN IMMEDIATELY OCCUPIED BY ALLIED TROOPS AFTER THE LANDING. Both this and Anzio had been evacuated by the civil population; but by the end of the first day some 300 out of the 11,000 inhabitants of the area had drifted back. Nettuno was a gay and very pleasant bathing resort with many lovely villas Aniio was constructed by Nero, and its little harbour ...

... AS the dates for general invasion of the Continent draw closer, many thoughts must be concerned with the stark prospect of the Germans leaving a heap of ruins behind when the time comes for them to withdraw bit by bit, as they evidently anticipate, on the Fortress Germany itself. We know about scorched earth, the Russians began it by scorching their own earth in their perilous retreat in the ...

... THE THREE CROSSINGS OF THE GARIGLIANO RIVER AND WHERE THEY WERE MADE BY THE FIFTH ARMY just before the new landings on the Italian west coast it Nettuno, to the south of Rome. As a result of these crossings, three considerable bridgeheads were established at the points indicated in the drawing i fourth area, around Argento and Punta Fiume, was occupied as the result of a landing made from the ...

... AT this time of year the maintenance parties responsible for the upkeep of our warships are working overtime, especially in the case of destroyers whose duties give them the smallest of respite from the winter weather. inter conditions in the Arctic and JNortk Atlantic in particular provide the severest test which could possibly be devised for ship and crew alike, and one of the highest ...

... THE new vote of credit for which Sir John Anderson asked in the House of Commons last week drew further attention to U.N.R.R.A., the biggest of all the philanthropic schemes of the United Nations. U.N.R.R.A. is the abbreviation of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis tration, and its task can be defined as planning the provision of essential imports and services required for ...

... TWO NEW BISHOPS ARE CONSECRATED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY The Archbishop's Procession- fourth from the right is the Rev. N. S. Jones, the new Assistant Bishop of Lagos, and fifth from the right is the Rev. G. F. Cranswick, the new Bishop of Tasmania. The consecration of two new Colonial Bishops by the Archbishop of Canterbury took place at a ceremony held in Westminster Abbey on the anniversary of ...

... BRITISH ARTILLERY MEN TAKE THEIR PRIEST SELF-PROPELLED GUNS INTO ACTION BETWEEN THE APPIAN WAY AND ANZIO. When the Germans launched a number of fierce counter-attacks at the beachhead formations, these formidable weapons played a part in repelling them. The Priest, mounted on a Valentine tank chassis, has been used by the British Army since the days of the heavy fighting in the Egyptian ...

... GREATCOATS FOR OFFICERS When you slip into one of our greatcoats you know at once that it has been made by somebody who has spent a lifetime in making clothes for men. You feel it as the coat moulds itself to your J shoulders, and in the way it fits and gives that grand sense of easy roominess which marks it a friend for many years to come. We like to think that every garment we make for an ...

... In their preparation of the Gustav Line around Cassino, the Germans made use of the conformation of the hills, mountains and rivers, which everywhere seemed to favour the defence. Especially around the Upper Gangliano, the tangle of mountain peaks becomes a wall of sheer rock rising from the river in front of Cassino and extending northwards up the valley towards Terelle. The roads climb by ...

... SIR WILLIAM STRANG, BRITAIN'S REPRESENTATIVE ON THE EUROPEAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, at home at Treetops, in Northwood. Sir William and Lady Strang are seated on the sofa Lieut. Colin Strang, R.A., is behind and Miss Jean Strang on the right. Sir William Strang is the son of a Scots farmer who migrated to Essex in the '80's he served in the Worcester Regiment in the last war. and in 1919 entered ...