... INDIAN SOLDIERS FREED FROM THE HANDS OF THE JAPS: These Sikh warriors were captured at the fall of Singapore they were taken by the Japs to Rabaul and thence to Los Negros, in the Central Pacific, to act as labourers. When Los Negros was recently captured by the Americans, the Sikhs were freed. They numbered in all sixty-nine. Here an American officer is questioning the men as they eat a meal ...

... AMERICAN PRESSES IN ENGLAND ROLL OUT THE MAPS OF LIBERATION. Many of these will be needed eight machines run twenty-four hours a day in this press room of an American Army Topographical Unit, turning them out A BIG NUMBER OF LOCOMOTIVES READY FOR THE CONTINENT. Stored on spur tracks alongside two open main lines, this big supply of new and powerful engines is awaiting employment in the ...

... Myitkyina has long been the objective to which the Allied forces under General Stilwell have been pressing forward in Northern Burma, racing against time to reach the shelter of the town before the monsoon descends in full force. It was on May 17 that the Japs were surprised by the sudden appearance of Brig.-General Merrill's American and Chinese troops, who pounced upon the main airfield, ...

... When the massed attack of the Allied forces was launched against the Gustav Line, stretching rom north of Monte Cassino down to the seashore, south-west of Minturno, attention was first con centrated upon the heroic efforts of the sappers to bridge the Rapido under intense enemy crossfire. When this gallant effort was successfully accom plished, attention soon turned to some spectacular ...

... Qn April 22, General Douglas MacArthur launched his offensive against the Japs in Dutch New Guinea by invading the Hollandia district on i hat huge island. American soldiers, storming ashore at three points along a 150-mile stretch of coastline, quickly captured the town of Hollandia itself and three important enemy aerodromes. The invasion was made by way of Hollandia at Tanahmerah Bay, 35 ...

... OF CABBAGES AND KINGS-- In the bad old days, before world war was the usual thing, I used often to walk through kitchen gardens-- my own and other peoples-- and enjoy with aesthetic pleasure the trim green orderliness which promised so many good things to come. I liked best to go round these vegetable gardens in early May and observe the beautifully-ruled lines of peas twining among their ...

... THE GREAT ARMADA ASSEMBLES A VIEW OF A PORTION OF THE GREATEST FLEET THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN-- an official picture taken just before zero hour. Warships, transports, landing craft, supply ships, are here seen awaiting the signal to launch the assault. Just by the wingtip of the plane is a large transport crowded with assault troops within a few hours after this picture was taken, they were ...

... This drawing was given in last week's issue of THE SPHERE: it is reproduced here again because it typifies the nature of the problem with which our troops were con fronted in their descent on the French coast on June 6. The first line of defence consisted of the extensive minefields along the coast, and the E-boats which were immediately sum moned to the attack upon the vast array of Allied ...

... AN UNUSUAL TYPE OF GERMAN MINE-DETECTOR. Much German equipment was captured by British troops at Anzio before the break-through last month, and some of it was actually being used against its former owners. Several unusual-type mine-detectors were secured, including the one depicted here. This piece of equipment is on the pram principle the search coil is ahead of two rubber-treaded wheels on ...

... I When our men crept forward in Italy to open their big offensive against the Germans, they carried with them every device for the detection and immobilisation of the enemy's mines. And then found that, in many cases, there were to detect! Instead, they were subjected to intense mortar-fire from the German defenders firmly ensconced on those awkward hill positions. i orrespondents at the ...

... THE fall of Rome, followed so swiftly by the start of the Second Front, makes the position of the Pope more interesting and important than ever. He has been described correctly as the greatest neutral. It is surprising, however, how little the British public knows about him, and how recent is any knowledge of his personality, even existence. Not a single English newspaper printed a single ...

... npMIBMMPVM General de Gaulle landed In France on June 14, stepping on French soil on a Normandy beach for the first time since the Germans occupied his country. He crossed the Channel on board the destroyer La Combattante nd was accompanied by French army and naval officers. Later he visited General Montgomery and inspected some of the British troops in the bridgehead. Soon after his arrival. ...