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... In mid-May, the French town of Annecy was raided by night by the R.A.F. The Alert was duly sounded but not by the authorities, who should have given the warning. For twenty minutes before the arrival of the main bombing force, a British plane circled over the town and sounded the Alert by means of a siren with which it had been specially equipped. Only those citizens who disregarded the ...
... A FRONT-LINE WADI IN THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD A wiring party carrying material through the gully in preparation for the coming night's work in a forward area during the hours of darkness In the bridgehead the troops have been in the habit of resting in their fox holes during the greater part of the day and working at night. During the day, any movement could be seen by both sides, and it is only ...
... DRILLING FOR NEW COAL SEAMS IN WALES A Filipino engineer scares to detach the hollow rods containing the core after the boring has been made in search of the open-cast coal, which here lies 60-ft. below the ground A BUSY MORNING HIGH UP IN THE MOUNTAINS On the left. Government surveyors are at work with level and measuring rods. Meanwhile, Filipino experts are putting final touches to the rig ...
... THE UNION JACK AND THE POLISH FLAG FLY FROM THE BOMB-BATTERED AND SHELL-WRECKED ABBEY on the Ridge above Cassino. After weeks of the bitterest fighting, little now remains of the massive walls but heaps of rubble BRITISH INFANTRYMEN PASSING ALLIED SHERMAN TANKS during mopping-up operations in the town. Only the wrecked walls of houses now remain in Cassino the eminence in the background of ...
... Among the oldest of all the weapons of war, and among the least publicised, the mine is still going strong on both land and sea. It is a weapon peculiarly dear to the German mentality. Mines are essentially such simple devices that a large number of changes can be rung in the method of func tioning. Some are designed to be projected waist or shoulder high by a small charge of explosive, so ...
... ^/ith heavy fighting taking place all along the line in Italy, striking pictures are now coming through to show the nature of the sanguinary battles in which the Fifth and Eighth Armies have been engaged. Some of them are reproduced on these and the succeeding pages The Gustav Line no longer exists it has been cracked wide open and thrust aside. The Hitler Line is going-- if, indeed, it has ...
... Dritish sappers, officers and men, played an heroic part in the bridge- building which was the key to success in the opening stages of the Rapido battle. On the first night of the offensive all efforts to construct one particular tank-carrying bridge across the 75-ft. span of the river had ended .in failure. Many casualties had been inflicted upon the sappers by enemy mortars, machine-guns and ...
... THE claims put forward- by which the U.S.S.R., the British Commonwealth, the United States and China should together form a super- World Council in fact if not in name, may not be acceptable to many of the remainder of articulate mankind. But what a fine job the four could do if they sincerely and genuinely got together over the international drug traffic. Therer would not be much jibbing at ...
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... How Are They At Home? J. B. Priestley Supplies an Answer to the Troops' Most Popular Question Lady Farfield (Jane Carr) celebrates factory promotion by giving a party. Ilcr two mates Angela Wyndham Lewis and Patricia Lajfan) and the foreman Sam George Carney bring their own rations, which are handed by Lady Farfield to Lotta, the cook IJella Kurty) While the party is in progress, two R.A.F. ...
... Restaurant Roundabout The Search for Food in London After Dark Lady Dudley, Danish wife of S/Ldr. Lord Dudley, R.A.F., and W/Cdr. G. Wotton devoted all their attention to the wartime menu Major Lord Ashley and his wife dined together She is French, and was wear ing the Cross of Lorraine, emblem of the Fighting French Right Lt. the Maclaine of Lochbuie took his wife out to dinner. He succeeded ...