... THERE are three main corollaries to Second Front invasion plans--extra strain on the railways, on shipping, and on communications. So far, the General Post Office--largely responsible for communications--has not blazoned its achievements to the world via the Ministry of Information book lets and H.M. Stationery Office. Yet in spite of the shortage of paper, the work of the G.P.O. deserves to ...

... THE GERMANS USE REMOTE-CONTROLLED SECRET WEAPONS IN THE BEACHHEAD-- AND FAIL, A RIGHT-HAND SIDE VIEW OF THE BEETLE TANK, OR DOODLEBUG, knocked out and captured near Cisterna on April 7. The rear compartment (on left) holds the storage battery, while the electric motor with a direct drive to the driving sprocket is in the forward compartment The invention variously known as the Beetle tank ...

... On the night of April 1S-19, Bomber Command sent out over one thousand aircraft on a large number of operations in particular, the offensive was resumed against railway targets in France through which the Nazis have been passing great quantities of material. Forces of Lancasters and Halifaxes left England just before midnight to attack targets near Paris. One of these was Juvisy-sur-Orge. ...

... Behind the U.S. Air Force in Britain in its plans for the coming invasion of the Continent of Europe lies the vast technical organisation of the base depots of Air Service Command scattered throughout this country and Northern Ireland. At these depots everything that the Air Force needs can be supplied; aircraft arriving from the United States are assembled and serviced; battle- damaged planes ...

... BUDAPEST EXPERIENCES ITS FIRST ALLIED AIR RAID Smoke from burning oil refineries, railway yards and aircraft factories rises in the air after bombers of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force made their first assault on the Hungarian capital, important enemy production centre, on April 3. A Liberator bomber can be seen soaring over the target area on the left A NAZI TRAINING CENTRE IN GERMANY ...

... WHEN the Japs crossed the wild mountain frontier of India, towards the end of March, they entered the small state of Manipur, part of Assam. They travelled light, with only animal transport to carry supplies, using tracks through the jungle-covered mountains, which were very little known, and in this manner they crept through unperceived till they reached the edge of the forests and peeped out ...

... A DEMONSTRATION BY THE CANADIANS OF MOUNTAIN WAR FARE How a gun-barrel weighing 96 lb. is loaded In the mountainous country near San Vito, in Italy, American and British instructors from the School of Mountain Warfare have recently been demonstrating the latest methods of vertical transportation. Officers of a Canadian Division have witnessed methods whereby they can overcome the difficulties ...

... BRITISH RIFLEMEN IN ACTION AT CASSINO ENSCONCED BEHIND ROCKS AT THE FOOT OF A SLOPE OVERLOOKING THE TOWN. The battle for Cassino and Monastery Hill began on March 15, when medium and heavy bombers rained bombs on many objectives for four hours (see pages 14-15 of this issue). This was continued by the greatest artillery barrage so far laid in the Italian theatre of war, to cover the advance of ...

... The concerted attack on Cassino opened from the north. Allied infantry and tanks advanced towards it along what was described as a specially-constructed road leading up to the northern outskirts of the town. A creeping barrage and smoke-screens gave protection to the infantry, who advanced in short rushes from cover to cover. This cover was provided by the masses of fallen debris from the ...

... 1939: A far-away land of which we know little. 1944: A near-at-hand country of which we'll hear much. SUCH, I venture to suggest, will prove to be Czechoslovakia during the next five years which. President Benes assures us, are to form a separate period in the history of our State from the first twenty years of the Republic. We shall hear much of Czechoslovakia for an assortment of reasons ...

... PERIODICALLY, military experts descend upon the tank and declare it to be full of grievous defects-- if not altogether obsolete. In Parliament, a secret debate is taking place on this subject. The experts have had reports of shells knocking out the tanks and setting them on fire, when caught in some position into which they should not have been sent. The fact-- not yet fully realised in ...

... CAPTIVE AMERICAN FLYING MEN. The German caption claims that all these men were shot down in one day over Occupied Europe. The men are en route to a prison camp for internment. The Germans quote their American prisoners as saying that the anti-aircraft defences had been so awful that they thought they were in the infernal regions THE R.A.F. ATTACK ON THE AIRCRAFT BEARINGS FACTORY AT LA ...