... THE AMERICANS CAPTURE COUTANCES in THEIR BIG SWEEP FORWARD TOWARDS THE SOUTH-WEST OF THE CHERBOURG PENINSULA a scene in the centre 01 the town just after its occupation, showing the rutted street through which the tanks had passed, Not a civilian is to be seen in this picture, and but three American soldiers. Coutances was taken by a U.S. Armoured Division, whose tanks and guns had already ...

... According to German reports. Allied warships joined in the barrage put down at the beginning of the Caen break-through and also illuminated the battlefield by directing their search lights on the low-lying clouds above the German positions. This drawing gives an impression of the scene. A concen tration of searchlights such as is shown would, if the angle of the cloud surfaces were favourable, ...

... HOW THE ITALIANS EVERYWHERE WELCOME THE ALLIES This picture was taken in Siena, which fell to French troops of the Fifth Army on July 3. It might represent any town in Italy to-day, where the revolt against Fascism is growing in intensity as towns are freed after long years of repression y TK'i-.i tt T li i ii^mrirnwa-- nfTT jiirmni ki i IT iii niw MEN OF THE RIFLE BRIGADE ON DAYLIGHT PATROL ...

... ^/hen the air attack opened, Lancasters and Halifaxes coming in from England ook the right side of the area to be covered, vith the steelworks as its main feature. They vere out not only to destroy the place but to nake craters so deep and numerous that the :nemy would find it impossible to bring tanks icross them. The left side of the area was Icn .'T'h ?s effectively by another force ol 0 ...

... I Today and every day, the C^/| r)£thQ/ well-known slogan is an 1 assurance of pleasure and satisfaction for cigarette smokers. (ssued by The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland), Ltd NCG.561I DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES The Annual Appeal tor 500,000 Half-Crowns for food for our family of 8,000 boys and girls is now being made. Please help this National work for destitute children ...

... THE FALL OF FLORENCE South Africans enter the city in the early hours of August 4 and take up on their tanks enthusiastic young Florentines mm mm m*/ ANTI-FASCIST ITALIANS IN THE STREETS OF FLORENCE engage Fascist and German snipers after the Allied entry THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF DEMOLITIONS WHICH THE ALLIES HAVE HAD TO FACE during their advance up the Italian mainland to Florence. ...

... On right On several occasions during recent operations in Normandy, great enemy activity has been observed around some of the chateaux with which the French countryside Is dotted. These chateaux are usually set in a woodland surrounding, with one face open to the sun. Attacks by the Allies on German-occupied buildings of this character have been made sometimes by our land forces on other ...

... The method of digging-in Panthers and Tigers originated in the Western Desert, where these powerful engines of war were put into shallow depressions in the hull-down position so that they could hold up an advance and yet present a most difficult target to our gunners. In Italy, the method was improved upon by the Germans, who utilised the turrets from knocked- out tanks to erect miniature ...

... nBHnHHHBMHHHMHHHBBIPPSBHHMKESiPQ AFTER THE CAPTURE OF COUTANCES. An American tank which was wrecked while passing along a mined street in this strategic key-point. Those sections which were not razed during the battle for the town were found to be heavily mined by the Germans. Coutances fell to the Americans on July 28, when two of their armoured columns joined up a mile to the north and then ...

... AUGUST being the traditional holiday month, it is perhaps excusable-- even though the war is still on-- to speculate about, and even to for mulate, plans for post-armistice vacations. After all we have read all this widely publicised post-war planning by various Government departments, so why not some individual post-war planning of our own? The first piece of good news I have acquired this ...

... Tt has now been definitely decided that Mr. Roosevelt is to stand for a fourth term of office. Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican nominee, will oppose him. Mr. Roosevelt's nomination was decided upon at an enthusiastic Convention at Chicago, of which we re produce a number of pictures on this page. But Vice- President Wallace will not run in harness with his present chief, as Senator ...

... COMING from north and south and expecting to meet, British forces under Generals Mont gomery and Devers are likely to see far more of France and the French than did their fathers in the last war. When one reflects, the men under French and Haig saw remarkably little of France during fifty-two months; nor did they see more than another corner on the march to the Rhine after hostilities had ...