... 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 ...

... INVASION CRAFT ASSEMBLED AT TOP SPEED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM British and American workmen are now hard at work putting together tank-carrying landing-craft at ports in the British Isles. The vessels are manufactured in the United States they are then shipped in three sections to this country, where Allied workmen assemble them in little more than a week. Here the men are seen preparing to bolt ...

... THE handling of aircraft from a carrier at sea provides one of the prettiest pieces of timing and co-ordination to be found in any branch of any service. When you see it from another ship sailing in company with the carrier it looks simple enough. A few signals are exchanged between the carrier and her escorts, then she drops out of her position in the line of warships, turns her nose into the ...

... ni^ 1^-- WKEN THE ENEMY SNIPER MAKES HIS PRESENCE KNOWN A German sharpshooter catches a Tank Commander on a road leading up to the enemy positions near Cassino as the latter emerges from the vehicle for a consultation with his crew Drawing by W. G. VV hitaker The tank has stopped on a shell-cratered road outside the battered town of Cassino. A i ap has brought the vehicle to a standstill at ...

... LONDON IN CEYLON, where an R.A.F. airfield has been built in the heart of the jungle. In the Strand, plenty of bananas, pineapples and coconut-milk can be bought on the extreme right is the proprietor of the shop IN HARLEY STREET, CEYLON, the Station Medical Officer gives a cholera injection to an airman who comes from Saskatoon, in Canada THE GIBRALTAR EYACUEES RETURN TO THEIR HOMES FROM ...

... return to the Continent it is high time for a tribute to be paid to the Corps of Military Police, who rank most unfairly as non-combatants in the Army List, and whom civilians and troops stationed in this country regard purely as disciplinarians to maintain soldierly behaviour among other ranks. Actually, 80 per cent of the Red Caps are highly trained troops (their personal weapon overseas is ...

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