... . MISS GERTRUDE LAWRENCE recently returned by air to London from the United States after an absence of six years. She is to start an ENS A tour of forces, factories and coal-fields almost immediately and later hopes to entertain the troops overseas. She has brought back tcith her a comedy by the French author of 44 Tovarich in which no doubt, she tvill be seen at some future date. Our portrait ...

... BALSA a tree from the sub-tropical forests of America has played not a small part in the invasion of France. Fuselages of the Mosquito bombers are made from it it gave buoyancy to the lifebelts worn by the troops, and Balsa rafts and floats saved many when their landing crafts hit the submerged obstacles. Balsa played its part in the insulation for the refrigeration ships and for the ...

... EVERY year, the outstanding athletes of India meet together at an event which overshadows all other sporting events of the year the All-India Olympic Games. The tenth of the series was opened at the end of February 1944, at Lahore, by General Sir Claude Auchinleck, C.-in-C. in India, in the presence of the Maharajah of Patiala. Lahore, capital of the Punjab, was well chosen, for it is situated ...

... HOW THE FIRST LANDINGS IN FRANCE WERE MADE BY GLIDER AND PARACHUTE; AN R.A.F. RECONNAISSANCE PICTURE SHOWING BRITISH NORSA GLIDERS AND ABANDONED PARACHUTES, after Allied airborne landings had been made in the Normandy fields to the north-east of the town of Caen Even before the landing craft had touched down on the beaches off the northern coast of France, airborne troops had already been ...

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... Hoots, lassie is, no doubt, what PIPE-MAJOR W. MACCONNACHIE said when he became aware of the very close interest which this Roman girl was taking in his kilt, but tchether he could succeed in making her understand that it was all the best cloth and no coupons is doubtfid. When the picture was taken, Pipe-Majors Macconnachie and Boyd were that taken up wV the grand ruins of the Coliseum that ...

... . MRS. CHARLES C. CLARK, the General's mother, is a pin-up fan. On her bedroom walls are manv portraits and netcspaper cuttings of her son, General Eisen hower, and a painting of Napoleon. When they got the news of General Mark Clark's entry with the Fifth Army into Rome, his wife and daughter ANN followed events on the map. C JUiNE 5, the day when General Mark W. Clark, hon. K.B.E., Commander ...

... VERA ZORINA, most photogenic of ballerinas stars in 44 Folloic the Boy s 44 at the Leicester Square Theatre. She plays Gloria Vance, the dancer tcho marries her partner, Tony West (George Raft), and achieves domestic happi ness after a sad misunderstanding, and some war activities She tcears this lovely dress for a dance sequence. ...

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... The pilotless plane, which is in reality a winged bomb. is admitted by the Germans to be one of their secret weapons. Apparently it is being launched from some point on the French coast once in the air, it rapidly attains its proper height and then follows a pro-determined course. The general appearance of the planes is shown in the drawing by Mr. Roland Davies reproduced above, which ...

... GENERAL MARK CLARK, LEADER OF THE FIFTH ARMY, speaks to an Italian priest from his jeep near the famous St. Peter's in Rome On June 4, twelve days after the launching of the Allied offensive from the Anzio Beachhead (on May 23), Allied troops entered the Italian capital. Fighting in the outskirts throughout June 3, they crossed the city's boundaries in the early evening. Picked German troops, ...

... FOXHOLES ON THE NORMANDY BEACHES TO GUARD THE LANDINGS. American soldiers keep watch from their one-man trenches while the beachhead is being cleared. In the background, trucks, ducks, amphibious tanks and other equipment crowd the shore, while at sea landing craft disgorge more troops and more equipment MEMBERS OF AN AMERICAN LANDING PARTY help their comrades ashore from a life-raft after ...