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... THE FIRST PICTURE OF A FLYING BOMB LAUNCHING SITE, CAPTURED BY THE AMERICANS IN NORMANDY DURING THEIR APPROACH TO THE PORT OF CHERBOURG. The entrance to the 20-ft. tunnel which runs the full width (120 ft.) of the site The picture reproduced above (and those given on page 3) show the unfinished steel and concrete construction captured by the Americans in Normandy and believed to have been ...
... nan pp a-- in ii i imiiiniir-- MTinrnn maan T hese pictures show views of one of the two huge German rocket yards captured in Cherbourg Peninsula and believed to be similar to those projecting pilotless planes to Britain. It has been described as resembling a scenic railway, or railway switching yard. The site is more than half a square mile in area. It is intricately camouflaged with such ...
... ONE OF THE FIRST FLYING-BOMB INSTALLATIONS FOUND BY THE R.A.F. IN NORTHERN FRANCE. The buildings used for the storage of the pilotless planes are placed outside the wood hidden in the wood itself are the launching cradles from which the craft is shot into the air. The location of this lair has been described as somewhere between thirty miles south of Calais and seven miles north of Abbeville ...
... THE MERCHANT NAVY PLAYS ITS PART IN THE INVASION OF FRANCE: THE CONSTANT PROCESSION OF FREIGHTERS ACROSS THE CHANNEL TO KEEP THE BEACHES SUPPLIED WITH THE MUNITIONS OF WAR. The vessels seen in the centre are small coasting steamers to the left is a naval motor-launch acting as convoy escort, whilst away to the right is a destroyer of the Eclipse class (of 1,375 tons). The sun is just rising ...
... The stubborn holding of Kohima, on the road between Imphal and Dimapur, by its small garrison, has been the keystone of the Allied position in Assam. If Kohima had fallen, the Japanese would have had an unobstructed road and central position from which to strike either north-west to Dimapur, or due south to Imphal. As it was, the garrison, though surprised by the sudden appearance of the enemy ...
... ()ne of the lesser mysteries of this war has been the plentiful supply of good things found by our troops throughout the whole of that part of Normandy now in our possession. Not only have the peasant folk and citizens alike been found to be well fed and well clothed, but in Bayeux itself chief town of the district the shops were all stocked with an almost bewildering profusion of goods which, ...
... FROM remarks made by the Prime Minister and reverberations across the Atlantic, one would imagine the trouble or hold-up in regard to General de Gaulle to be wrapped in mystery. Leader- writers demand that the truth, held secret, shall be revealed, and ask why there would be widespread pain if this happened. If riddle or enigma there be, enough has come out, in all conscience, to enable us ...
... 'phe pictures on this page come from the 1 two ends of the battle line in France St. Sauveur lies in the base of the Cherbourg Peninsula, Tilly is a keypoint in the struggle for Caen, on the left flank' of the beachhead. Heavy fighting took place at both points before the Germans were ousted, and the pictures reproduced here indicate how severe the struggle must have been in both sectors AN ...
... ALLIED LEADERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN PUN AN ATTACK General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Allied C.-m-C. in the Mediterranean, looks on while Major-General Nathan W. Twining, Commanding the Fifteenth U.S. Air Force in that theatre of war, points to a map of Italy to outline a plan of attack ROCKET-FIRING BEAUFIGHTERS ATTACK ENEMY MERCHANTMEN IN THE AEGEAN The camou flaged vessel seen here was one ...
... Hollowing In the wake of the first wave of assault troops, an engineering battalion of the Ninth Air Force began the hazardous but extremely important task of building an emergency landing-strip in France itself, almost within hours of the first landings on the Normandy coast Working at a hot pace, the engineers were harassed at first by machine-gun fire and shelling from 88-m;n. guns they ...
... V II a INVASION GIRLS KEEP SUPPLIES ON THE MOVE On left An Army Recovery Depot where A.T.S. girls repair trucks for transportation overseas. On right An Army carrier is given a thorough overhaul by expert girl workers. Greasing and repairing vehicles of every description after damage in combat; convoying them to a port of embarkation cleaning and replacing tool-kits; testing wireless sets; ...