... A British oilfield (whose location, for 1 security reasons, must still be kept secret) is now yielding at the rate of 100,000 tons a year, or the equivalent of 26.000,000 gallons, which is the produc tion target set by Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, M.P., Petroleum Secretary and chairman of the British Oil Control Board. This oilfield is small but of the highest quality. Its crude oil product ranks with ...

... B^M d 7TZY7T7 B ■^BnivBi^M^niTi^rn A VIEW OF A SECTION OF , SHOWING THE FIRES AND SMOKE CAUSED BY AMERICAN COMBINED AIR AND GROUND ATTACKS. A photographer of he began their advance into the town proper. Since the buildings in the foreground of this view were still occupied by German troops and an enemy observation back in the building to prevent disclosing his exact position. Dive-bombing, ...

... While having to defend the apex of the corridor round about Nijmegen against persistent enemy attack, the British Second Army has been slowly but steadily pushing eastward towards the River Maas. By the end of September, Helmond (north-east of Eindhoven) was taken, and Deurne, on the International Express route to Duisburg and Essen, was also cleared of Germans. The dense Reichswald, to the ...

... I f the canals of Holland present problems to our fighting forces, the roads may be said to affect immediate day-to-day tactics to an equal extent. The new roads are firmly based and constructed and will bear heavy traffic but the traffic on them is confined to the raised road surface and the slopes which give access to the lower roads. Although these new roads are in themselves so solid, the ...

... 44 Once again, as so often in Eighth Army history, the weather has come to the help of the enemy, writes one war correspondent from the Adriatic sector in Italy. The storms and floods of winter have already arrived almost before those of this country The valleys along the coast have been flooded by the heavy rains and consequent swollen rivers and this has caused a change of tactics on the ...

... HOW THE AMERICAN ENVOYS TOOK THE SURRENDER OR DIE ULTIMATUM to the German Commander in the city Two American lieutenants, accompanied by a private carrying a white bed-sheet on a pole, crossed from the American First Army positions near the Aachen-Cologne railway, which runs just south of the city boundary, and carried the Surrender or Die ultimatum to the historic city of Aachen. On arrival ...

... BITTER STREET-FIGHTING AMIDST THE RUINS OF AACHEN AN AMERICAN DETACHMENT PICKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE RUBBLE AND DEBRIS IN ONE OF THE MAIN STREETS IN THE CITY. The men are moving slowly towards the centre of Aachen, mopping up as they go and paving the way for other detachments to follow in their wake Fighting of the intensest nature has been going on in Aachen, first German city of ...

... THE NEW TEMPEST And the New German Jet and Rocket Aircraft HThe Tempest is a single-seat, low-wing monoplane. fighter produced by the famous Hawker Company and designed by Mr. Sidney Camm. It is powered with a supercharged Napier Sabre engine of 2,200 h.p., and has a four-bladed pro peller. Its armament consists of four 22-mm. cannon guns the span of the aircraft is 41 ft. length, 33 ft. 8 ins ...

... THE NATURE OF THE COUNTRY IN THE ARAKAN AREA Looking towards the enemy positions in the Kalapanzin Hills. This picture was taken from Wembley Hill, near Maungdaw. The Valley beyond the British positions is No-Man's land. We will fight on through the monsoon. With these words, the forces under the command of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten learned that that which had hitherto been regarded as ...

... On September 15 the American plans in the Central Pacific were taken a step further towards completion. On that day American Marines and Army assault troops landed on Peleliu Island, in the Palau group, in the Western Carolines. The landings were made under the command of Vice- Admiral Wilkinson, commanding the Third Amphibious Force, and of Major-General Julian Smith, of the U.S. Marines. ...

... The flying bomb was designed to dive to destruction with the engine running at full throttle, according to an expert who has had opportunities of examining these German weapons. The interruption of the engine note just before the dive, which gave such effective warning of imminent danger, was never intended by the designer. This feature, which must have saved innumerable lives by enabling ...

... THE ALLIED CONVOYS NOW SAIL UP AND DOWN CHANNEL IN WATERS CLEARED OF THE ENEMY'S E-BOATS AND OTHER WARSHIPS They can even hug the French coast, if it suits them, without fear of interference from guns or aircraft- -Drawing by W m. McDowell Now that the French Channel ports are in Allied hands, British vessels can sail up and down Channel without coming under fire from German batteries on shore ...