... FOLLOWING their practice of fishing for care less replies, the Germans have been focusing our attention on Holland and Belgium, where a variety of extreme, last-minute moves to counter invasion are said to have been taken under the personal supervision of Rommel and Rundstedt. Reading through the German boasting, one deduces that the populations will be crippled in order to prolong the ...

... t C 7 ft KSS^EufiwrHi^ ■vPinnHfinMiH Quring a storm of such violence that men were unable to stand upright on the deck of an Escort Carrier, a young naval airman recently made an amazing landing back on the parent ship (sec two drawings at right). 1 he wind strength was so great at the time that the normal landing conditions had to be reversed, and instead of approaching over the stern with ...

... mmmaamammaBmmaaaaa HTKe American Landing Craft No. 349 was conveying German prisoners from the Anzio beachhead to Naples when she ran into a violent storm. The ship had to anchor in the lee of an island to shelter from the gale, but changing winds caused her to drag her anchors. She was driven on to the rocks, and within a few minutes had been badly holed. By the time daybreak had arrived the ...

... THE RED ARMY ADVANCING ACROSS THE NARVA RIVER, south of the town of that name. The river is frozen over, affording a firm surface for men and equipment much of the latter was taken acrors on sleds THE WAR ON SKIS With both gunners and mortars mounted thus, the advance can go forward swiftly Not the men alone, but the weapons also move on skis. This picture shows an anti-tank rifle crew diking ...

... In October 1943, the Germans in Italy had a total of twenty-six divisions concentrated to the north of Rome. These had been gathered from many quarters after the surrender of Italy. Only seven of them were fighting south of the capital. But by the middle of January, twelve German divisions had been sent to the southern front, to hold up the Allies after the series of successful river crossings ...

... This photograph is not a nostalgic pre-1939 snapshot from the South of France, or of some luxurious country house in a favoured corner of England. It teas taken in the garden of Rathbaron, C.lendon Road, Toorak, Victoria, Australia, a house -used as barracks by the W.A.A.A.F. When the girls are off duty they can enjoy a dip in the swimming-pool, and sun bathe on the spacious lawns. Uniform ...

... Wartime SCHOOLGIRL CHORISTERS lined the path from Langhton village church when MR. F. C. PARKS and his bride MISS C. L. SPENCER, left after their icedding. SECTION OFFICER HOOD-CREE, W.A.A.F., and CAPTAIN BRENO DUARTE DA CUNHA were guests at the Simpsons' Services Club lunch in honour of the Brazilian Air Mission. MISS JOY SPILMAN ira5 a debutante at the Queen Charlotte's Ball. LIEUT. KATHLEEN ...

... TWO Commanders of midget submarines tiddlers, in R.N. parlance), Lieut. Basil Charles Godfrey Place, D.S.C., R.N., and Lieut. Donald Cameron, were awarded the V.C. for their daring attack on the 44 Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord on September 22, 1943. Both are prisoners of war. On March 8 we gave at-home studies of Mrs. Donald Cameron here are a series of portraits of MRS. B. C. G. PLACE, who ...

... THE FRENCH- CANADIAN V.C. AND HIS FAMILY. /CAPTAIN (now ACTING MAJOR) PAUL TRIQUET, a French-Canadian born in 1908 at Cabano, Province of Quebec, has been awarded the Y.C. for his determined leadership and example, and superb contempt of the enemy in an action on the Adriatic front on December 14, with the Eighth Army. His company of the Royal 22me Regiment, with the support of a Canadian ...

... MIRACLE FILM OF LOURDES, THE SONG OF BERNADETTE., HP HE SONG OF BERNADETTE, due at the New Gallery on March 27, is Twentieth Century-Fox's film of Franz WerfeFs book, reconstructing the amazing story of Bernadette Soubirous, the peasant girl of Lourdes, who in 1858 saw visions of the Virgin Mary and discovered the healing spring of water which since then has been regularly visited by some ...

... NOT QUITE THE FIVE INCHES I When OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND took an onstage bath in the gay and impudent net c Warner screen comedy PRINCESS O'ROURKE, she \cas not tied dotcn by the British wartime 5-in.-only rule. On the contrary, director and author Norman Krasna had tico rules about the sequence 44 water cloudy with milk and plenty of it with the charming though decorous result illustrated by our ...

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