... FEW people realise that not a single photograph of British troops in action overseas has been taken by British civilian Press photographers. All of them are the work of the Army Film and Photo graphic Service, a small unit which wears A.F.P.U. as a shoulder-flash and numbers about 100 officers and men on active service. The men, incidentally, are all sergeants and were newspaper photographers ...

... FASHION DISPLAYS BY PARATROOPS Two pictures taken in England at a base of Troop Carrier Command, showing the manner in which some of the skyborne soldiers adorned themselves for invasion. The two Americans on the right are using a Red Indian technique for head and hair THE NAVY'S KITCHEN OFF THE LANDING BEACHES Crews of small craft lining up on the barge for the hot midday meal, served through ...

... As stated in a recent issue of The Sphere, the R.A.F. have been using rocket-firing aircraft against the Germ ins since last June although this news was withheld, for security reasons, until quite recently. It can now be stated further that the rocket-firine aircraft operate bv mailt as well as bv day. During the terrific pound ng of the northern coast of France in the days and weeks which ...

... 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 ...

... WEDDINGS, WORK, AND ART: PICTORIAL NEWS PARADE. The MARCHIONESS OF QUEENSBERRY Cathleen Mann the artist looking at a gouache by Keith V aughan, soldier -artist tchose first one-man shoxc teas held at the new Lefevre Galleries, 131-134, New Bond Street. MISS ELIZABETH THOMAS, daughter of Mr. Rowland Thomas, K.C., married CAPTAIN D. RICHMOND-JONES, the Gordon Highlanders, in the Round Chapel of ...

... . ADMIRAL SIR BERTRAM RAMSAY, K.C.B., K.B.E., M.V.O., R.N., Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, under General Eisenhower, for the Invasion of Europe, watches the Fleet sail to the assault. LADY RAMSAY, wife of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, K.C.B., R.N. PHOTOGRAPHS BY WILLIAM DAVIS. DM. SIR BERTRAM HOME RAMSAY'S experience of Combined Operations is second to none. He bore the chief burden of the ...

... . Here is the Viceroy's desk at his hoitse in New Delhi. A portrait of Lady Wavell is in the centre, and left, a caricature of an officer out pig-sticking ivith a tiger for quarry. A picnic party at a ruined fort at Tuglakabad includes LADY WAVELL. MRS. DE BATHE (her secretary and lady-in-waiting) the Comptroller, MAJOR COATES, the HON. FELICITY WAVELL, and several A.D.C.s. The Viceroy's ...

... 0111 EVENINGS AT HOU IUgbt FOR DRESS ALLOWANCES that have dwindled this rayon spun print housecoat is a good buy. The narrow pleating which accentuates the wide waistband-tie is exciting, very flattering. It costs the very modest sum of £3 14 O. Photographs by Conolly. FOR UPLIFT when you are tired, 4jr simple elegance at home, for a sensa tion of luxurious ease, can you think of anything more ...

... Make it my way, Madam says OLD H ETHERS Since you cannot buy Robinson's Barley Water in bottles for the time being, you will do well to take Old Hethers' advice and make it for yourself from Robinson's Patent Barley. The simple directions are on the tin and if you cannot get hold of a lemon or an orange for flavouring, use the juice of stewed or tinned fruit honey or jam. Barley Water from ...