... 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 MONASTERY AT CASSINO THE SHATTERED BENEDICTINE ABBEY WHICH OVERLOOKS THE TOWN, and which was once a German stronghold in the Gustav Line a picture taken from the air after its capture and occupation by the Allies On May 18 the announcement was made that both Cassino and its Monastery had been captured by the Allied Armies in Italy. Thus fell one of the most powerful strongholds yet ...

... AS with the Corps of Military Police and the Royal Army Service Corps, so with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. This is an all-in war, and the officers and men of the R.A.O.C. are finding themselves right up in the forward area of the battle instead of being well behind the front line. When our troops return to the Continent, the first flight of the maintenance organisation will be landed on the ...

... THE COLONEL-IN-CHIEF OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS During her inspection of a battalion of the Regiment. This occasion was amongst the first of the young Princess's public appearances after her coming of age A HAPPY PHOTOGRAPH AT THE EMPIRE DAY RALLY held in Windsor Great Park on May 24, in connection with the Salute the Soldier Week PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S FIRST SOLO ENGAGEMENT At a meeting of the ...

... 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 ...