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The MEN who are REPORTING the WAR: The Work of the British Army Photographers, who Get the Action Pictures, and ..
... 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 ...
INVASION SIDELIGHTS: A Series of Pictures Connected with the Landings in Normandy
... 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 ...
DEVELOPMENTS in the WAR by AIR: Drawings to Illustrate the New Bombing Technique of the Allied Air Forces
... 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 Lightest Wood Known
... 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 ...
India's Own Olympic Games
... 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 ...
HOOTS, LASSIE! IT'S THE BEST CLOTH, AND NO COUPONS!
... 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 ...
ON THE DAY HE ENTERED ROME: GENERAL MARK CLARK'S MOTHER, WIFE AND DAUGHTER
... . 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 ...
PHOTOGENIC BALLERINA ZORINA
... 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. ...
Clarks
... jgam g though long the months I have to ivork And short the weeks when I may play, In Sandals with a hinged wood sole, My feet are on a holiday. LARKS of STREET have retailers in nearly every town. Please choose from 1 the styles you find available. ...
The GERMAN PILOTLESS PLANES, The NAZI SECRET WEAPON: How They Have Been Operating Against Southern England
... 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 ...
HOW ROME FELL TO THE ALLIES
... 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, ...