... 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 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 ...

... A DRAMATIC PICTURE SHOWING HOW AMERICAN TROOPS INVADED WAKDE ISLAND, over 100 miles to the west of Hollandia, along the Dutch New Guinea coast. The second wave of the invasion is here going forward from the big Infantry Landing Craft, with stretcher-bearers going down the ramps and plunging through the surf in the amphibious assault which resulted in the capture of Wakde Island and Sarmi both ...

... THE KING GOES TO FRANCE TO VISIT THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE BEACHHEADS A picture taken during the Channel crossing, showing the King with Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham on the bridge of the cruiser Arethusa When the King visited the Normandy beachhead, he crossed the Channel in the cruiser Arethusa, and then landed on the shore in an amphibious duck. Less than 6 miles from the front he held an ...

... The ALLIED ARMIES in FRANCE Scenes in Normandy as the Troops Push Forward Against the Germans AMERICAN TROOPS MEET THE LOCAL BELLES IN THE TOWN SQUARE. These soldiers had just finished rounding up a group of German prisoners, captured in the swift advance of the Allies the men (to judge from their clothing) are paratroops and objects of delighted interest to the local inhabitants, young and ...

... npMIBMMPVM General de Gaulle landed In France on June 14, stepping on French soil on a Normandy beach for the first time since the Germans occupied his country. He crossed the Channel on board the destroyer La Combattante nd was accompanied by French army and naval officers. Later he visited General Montgomery and inspected some of the British troops in the bridgehead. Soon after his arrival. ...

... On right The bombarding force sailed with 95,365 rounds of ammuni tion from 16 in. to 4 in. It was expected that something in the nature of 16,000 tons of ammunition would be expended in the first few days of the assault. Although the expenditure of so heavy a weight proved unnecessary, the Allied Navies, in two days, carried out the most persistent and heaviest bom bardment in Naval history. ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 251 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i Secret Weapon-- when the assessment is made of the causes of the failure of the Germans in the Second World War, their lack of relevance and mania for side-issues will be among the list. With all their competence under iron dis cipline, they and their leaders were nasty urchins to the end in practice and mentality. 1 have not yet seen mcii ...