... THE FIFTH ARMY MAKES JUNCTION WITH THE BRIDGEHEAD FORCES After four months of attack, counter-attack and inevitable lulls, the Anzio forces at last broke out and joined up with the main body of the advancing Fifth Army. A British Reconnaissance Unit came out over the Pontine Marshes south of Littona, and met the advancing elements of an American Division about four miles south of the Mussolini ...

... The Piper Cub is an American-built aeroplane, with seats for two persons, of whom one is usually the observer, facing forward or aft as conditions demand. Its maximum speed is about 90 m.p.h., and it lands at the very low speed of 35 m.p.h. It has been used for a number of purposes over the fighting front in Italy, of which one is depicted in the drawing above. During the initial stages of the ...

... NO wonder that Admiral Sir William James went on the air the other night to launch an appeal for the Empire Society's War Hospitality Com mittee. This organisation devotes itself to providing hospitality for all the Empire troops which come to Great Britain and Ulster. And yet they were able to spend only £40,000 last year. By contrast, the American Red Cross organisation, which does a similar ...

... HOW THE BEACHHEAD PREPARED FOR THE GREAT ADVANCE Huge stocks of food being handled at an Army Supply Depot, in preparation for the link-up between the Beachhead forces and the Fifth Army THE TOWN OF PONTECORVO AFTER ITS CAPTURE BY THE EIGHTH ARMY the Germans were forced to evacuate this keypoint and to draw back north-west along the Liri Valley as a result of the penetration of the Hitler Line ...

... THE COMBINED OPERATIONS CHAPLAINS MEET A conference of Navy and Army Chaplains who are serving Combined Operations personnel and Commando Units was held recently under the direction of their Senior Chaplain, the Rev. B. G. Beale, R.N. Speakers at the Conference were the Chaplain of the Fleet, the Second Sea Lord, the General Officer Commanding Commando Units and the Director of Combined ...

... The expected invasion of the Allies some where on the West has greatly occupied the attention of the German military authori ties ever since the autumn of 1942, when the great Atlantic defensive wall was being constructed. The tremendous area to be defended, from Norway to the Bay of Biscay, made the task a gigantic one, but by using the enforced labour of the occupied countries, Hitler was ...

... WHEN the genuine espionage books relating to this war are in due course published, they will be followed by an international spate of concocted revelations, semi-fiction and honest fiction, and I have been wondering whether it will be a more colourful and exciting yarn, in the round, than it was last time. Without pressing in order to try and make one's point, there have undoubtedly been ...

... Situated in the moun tains, the cabin in which the Partisan Leader lives is difficult for visitors to locate. It is reached by a steep path cut out of the mountain-side, and the visitor is subjected to a critical examination by the Partisan Guards A NEW PORTRAIT OF MARSHAL TITO taken recently in Yugoslavia. With him is his favourite pet a German police dog which answers to the name of Tiger ...

... A few days ago, details of the new Rocket Projectiles of the R.A.F. were made public. They have proved so successful that they are now the most powerful weapon operated by Coastal Command against Hitler's U-boats and convoys. Four types of aircraft are fitted with the R.P. Beaufighters, Hurricanes, Typhoons and Swordfish. Each of them carries eight of the rockets, four under each wing. They ...

... Men will speak with pride of our doings Drawing by Olive Snell Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery spoke these words in a stirring message to his troops made shortly before he led them in the greatest assault that history has ever known, 011 the enemy-occupied coast of Northern France. The Army Group commanded by the General is made up of British, Canadian and American forces, and in the Prime ...

... Jack Buchanan is to play the role of Lord Arthur Dilling when Frederick Lonsdale's comedy, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney with Coral Browne in the name-part, is revived by Firth Shephard at the Savoy Theatre to-morrow night. It is a part which might have been written for him, and he should be at his most fascinating best as the amateur Sherlock Holmes who catches the mysterious, lovely crook Mrs. ...

... This Happy Breed, for Actors' Charity Mrs. Ernest Bevin, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Eden and Mrs. Churchill were at the gala performance of the film version of Noel Coward's play, held in aid of the Actors' Orphanage Mrs. Coward, mother of the playwright, was at the Gaumont Jo see This Happy Breed and is seen with Laurence Olivier and his wife, Vivien Leigh Right M. Fedov Gusev, the Soviet ...