... ht. n*Ti 'iMtj nwrrrif Sbszss'Sbkses??-?: s:-^e^L! THE FORWARD POST OF A PUNJABI REGIMENT IN BURMA. This picture was made within sight and sound of an advanced Japanese position. The post has been roofed with logs and has been well camouflaged ON THE ARAKAN FRONT. A Punjabi infantryman in a forward position overlooking the 7th Division Box. At the time this picture was taken the Division was ...

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Royal Parades INVASION troops have seen quite a lot of the King lately. They have held pride of place in His Majesty's recent programme of engagements, which has included a day with the Canadian Army in this country. Among the other engagements the King has ful filled have been the third of the afternoon parties at Buckingham Palace, which was quite as ...

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... Jennifer Jones, young mother of two sons, has leapt into stardom with her first screen performance in the title-role of The Song of Bernadette. Jennifer was discovered by Twentieth Century talent scouts at the end of 1942. She had already appeared on the New York stage in Our Toivn and in The Shining Hour, but film work was unknown to her. Child of a theatrical family both her father and ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE bazaar in aid of the local church had been widely advertised. For weeks collectors had been handing over vouchers in return for money, and when the great day arrived Mrs. Blank had ten shillings' worth, which could be exchanged for equal value at any of the stalls. Mrs. Blank set forth rather late. When she came home she was looking annoyed. What did ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...