... THE PRE-FABRICATED PORT At Arromanches on the Normandy Coast How it was Constructed for the Supply and Reinforcement of the Allied Armies T n order to accommodate the necessary shipping and port equipment, the size of each harbour had to be roughly the same as Dover, which entailed the construction of 150 caissons. For technical reasons these could not be placed in water deeper than fathoms, ...

... The complications of refuelling a cruiser at sea have been reduced to a minimum by modern methods a large part of the process now takes place while both vessels are proceeding on their course. This picture shows the scene looking aft along the cruiser's deck. In the foreground is a rating holding a marked line which enables the navigator, watching from the bridge, to keep on a true course ...

... YY/hen an R.A.F. plane out on an operational mission over Western Holland gets into difficulties, necessitating a forced landing, the pilot may well be faced with a problem very different from anything within his previous experience. Below him he sees nothing but a network of shining waterways, varying in size from those capable of allowing a couple of sailing-barges to pass one another with ...

... The flame-thrower shown in the above drawing is a British Crocodile, the most powerful and effective of the three types now being used on the Continent. The vehicle itself is a Churchill tank, to which has been fitted an armoured trailer containing the necessary fuel. The flame can be projected to a distance of over 150 yards by the use of a special new type of fuel. One of the curiosities ...

... During the past few weeks, the King has made a tour of the British armies in Belgium and Holland. He arrived by air on October 1 1 wearing battle-dress for the first time, and drove to Field-Marshal Montgomery's Headquarters. For the next five days he inspected the Nijmegen spearhead and paid visits to various headquarters, covering many hundreds of miles. Each night he slept in Marshal ...

... ■aaiamif THE HEAD OF THE AMERICAN WAR PRODUCTION BOARD IN CHINA Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek is here seen with his visitor from the States, Mr. Donald M. Nelson (Chairman of the W.P.B.), on the veranda of the cottage assigned to him at Chiang Kai-Shek's country estate near Chungking. On the left is Dr. T. V. Soong, Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs. On September 26 Mr. Nelson returned to ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 267 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Aftermath of Arnhem. Let us clear our minds of nonsense and readjust our perspective. All that week which followed the evacua tion of Arnhem, I was driven mad by pessimist voices and by head shakings and jeremiads. Believe me, the weakest of our brethren and the heaviest of our national handicaps in war are those who alternately soar and ...

... ()n October 3, by daylight, the R.A.F. carried out a mighty blow against the Germans on the fortified Dutch island of Walcheren, in the North Sea. At this point, German long-range batteries barred the way to shipping moving up the Scheldt Estuary to the great port of Antwerp. Most of the island is below sea-level. The blow was struck by wave after wave of heavy JLancasters which, between 1.0 p ...

... Touring the night of September 23 the most paralysing blow of the war was struck against the Ruhr, when the Dortmund-Ems Canal, main bottleneck in Germany's water system, was breached by a force of ninety-six Lancasters. The canal is now dry, and so far there has been no sign that the Germans have begun the long and difficult task of repairing the damage. The canal was attacked at a place ...

... C'oming ever nearer to the mainland of Japan itself, on September 20 the first attack on Manila, capital of the Jap-held Philippine Islands, was carried out by carrier aircraft of the American Third Pacific Fleet. They hit again and again at shipping in Manila Harbour and in Subic Bay, across the Bataan Peninsula at the Cavite naval base, just south of Manila and at Clark Field and Nichols ...

... The northern branch of the Rhine, here known as the River Lek, is crossed at Arnhem by the road bridge on the right and by another bridge, carrying the railway line, on the left. The original plan was to drop the Airborne Division near the town but so intense was the flak that the R.A.F. could not land them nearer than eight miles. Even so, the air borne troops reached Arnhem at the end of the ...

... The daring actions by which Allied Airborne troops captured important bridges in I Holland far in advance of the land forces enabled General Dempsey's Second Army to rush forward at great speed, to cut off the Germans in the western part of Belgium and Holland. This method met with its greatest success at Nijmegen. The airborne troops were landed on Sunday, September 1 7, dropping to the south ...