... A Farm Walk at Cobham, Surrey A Demonstration by the Surrey W.A.A.C. THE Surrey W.A.A.C., for the second year in succession, arranged a demonstration at Cob- ham which took the form of a walk over Larken- shaw Farm, owned and farmed by Mr. W. A. Thompson. The main items of interest were the herds of Guernsey and of Ayrshire cattle, a farm silage plant, the use of heavy implements for break ing ...

... ASK A SOLDIER Ask a soldier what he knows about Lister's, and if in peace-time farming was his job, he'll tell you about the engines, separators, ploughs and other Lister machines that were his before the war. To-day, he knows that Lister's are still his trusted friends. He won't give you details, but when he gets home again he'll again specify Lister's. mss^ I ...

... A CURTAIN OF FIRE IS PUT UP BY BRITISH WARSHIPS during a night bombing attack off the Normandy coast. When enemy night raiders came over and tried to bomb the Allied armada in the anchorage at Ouistreham, British warships put up a terrific barrage. These two pictures were taken from the cruiser Mauritius they show tracer fire from the Navy streaking up into the darkness and creating an almost ...

... The pictures reproduced on these pages show the progression of the wounded British soldier from battle-line to Britain. By sea- and by air, the wounded are evacuated at great speed-- so that, ;in some cases, only a very few hours elapse before the arrival of a wounded man at a base in this country where the most expert treatment can, of course, be carried out. British and American soldiers are ...

... CAPTURED BY THE EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY: The 70-ton Ferdinand self-propelled gun, showing the top of the vehicle and the manner in which the crew enter by hatchways. The gun itself is an 88 mm. On right During the rapid advance of our troops in Italy, the Germans have been forced to abandon or blow up many of the vehicles and guns which they found it impracticable to take with them along the ...

... ON JUNE 20 bombers of the Eighth Air Force attacked the oil refineries at Hamburg. Eight plants were left burning as a result, and here the Rhenania Ossag Refinery is seen spouting black smoke thousands of feet into the air as a result of the assault ANOTHER REFINERY AT HAMBURG GOES UP IN SMOKE at the same time as the one in the upper picture. This is the Ebano Works. On June 20 the Eighth Air ...

... 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 ...

... THE King and Queen have always shown a great personal interest in agriculture and the well- being of the farm workers. They recently made a thorough tour of inspection of a Volunteer Agricultural Camp and also visited an area of woodland which is being cleared, ploughed and culti- vated with disc-plough and gyrotiller in readiness for a wheat crop. The Royal Party was accompanied by the Duke ...