... 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 ...

... THE ROAD TO ROME: THE TOWN OF CISTERNA, A KEYPOINT IN THE ANZIO BRIDGEHEAD, AFTER ITS CAPTURE BY THE ALLIES, showing troops and transports speeding along the Appian Way towards the Italian capital before its fall on Sunday, June 4 During the prolonged and bitter fighting in the Anzio bridgehead, the town of Cisterna was held right till the last moment by the Germans. It was finally captured on ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 249 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i The Rest Cure-- I never experienced the Edwardian rest cure. It was the fashionable remedy for too much nice, expensive fun in the 1900's. I was too young and too humble for any but the crumbs of fun. But now again the old cure is fashionable among middle-aged folk, who have had too much nice, clean, concentrated wartime fun. The doctor ...

... Behind the new Allied drive in Italy lies the story of Operation Strangle-- the gigantic air offensive which choked off supplies and reinforcements to Nazi troops on the fighting fronts. This campaign, launched approximately two months before the ground offensive got under way, May 11, 1944, accurately and systematically drew a noose by bomb and machine-gun and cannon fire around the entire ...

... 'The small Japanese garrison in Myitkyina, though surprised by the sudden appearance of Merrill's troops, has not proved easy to overcome. They lost the main airfield, lying to the south of the town, but kept up resistance within the town itself. At first it seemed that they would be quietly overwhelmed the railway station was captured after fierce fighting, and about a third of the town was ...

... On this and the following pages, we present to our readers a number of drawings specially done for this issue to illustrate the strategy of the present big offensive in Italy and to depict outstand ing incidents during the heavy fighting on the various battlefronts. At the same time, we reproduce some official photo graphs, of which a great number is now reaching this country. Most of these ...

... ()ne of the most outstanding features of the defence zone chosen by Kesselring in Italy (and which withstood the Allied assaults all through the winter) was the dominating peak of Monte Cairo. In addition to its dominating qualities as a gun position, correspondents later underlined its immense value as a look-out post. From various points, German observers could watch almost every Allied ...