... THE PRIME MINISTER ABOUT TO STEP FROM HIS PLANE on arrival in Moscow on October 9 for his discussions with Marshal Stalin a picture received by radio THE GROUP AT THE AIRFIELD AFTER MR. CHURCHILL'S ARRIVAL From left to right are seen Field-Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Mr. Churchill Mr. Anthony Eden (behind) M. Maisky, Assistant Foreign Commissar (in uniform) and ...

... The GLIDER which Carries TANKS Details of the British Hamilcar Used for the Arnhem Expedition (^\ne of Britain's first-class tanks is the specially-designed airborne Tetrarch. In June 1940 the General Staff at the War Office, together with experts from the Ministry of Supply, foresaw that there would be a need for an airborne tank when we invaded the Continent, a tank which could be carried in ...

... working with the troops, helping to dig deep trenches, which are defended by mines and heavy wire. The rapid advance over the Seine and Marne was halted at the Moselle, when rain descended and the river rose, making the construction of bridges difficult, causing a general delay and thus giving the enemy the breathing-space for which he was longing. The enemy resistance became stiffer and there ...

... 'Fhe Siegfried Line runs for a length of about 300 miles from near the Swiss border up into Holland. Over the whole of this length it will have to be manned by the Germans, for nowhere are they safe from the threat of invasion by the British and American armies. Unlike the Maginot Line, the Siegfried has been built in depth, with gun emplacements and infantry positions of every kind, pill ...

... THE FUHRER REAPPEARS AFTER THE ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE. This picture was taken on August 27, five weeks after the bomb attempt during which he was slightly wounded. On that day he received fourteen soldiers of the German Army and Army S.S. at his headquarters, and awarded them the Golden Pin for man-to-man combat. The Fiihrer is now noticeably plumper in appearance than at the outbreak of war of ...

... : Medical authorities are watching with great' interest the progress of an experiment which is being made by the Glasgow Public Health Department. This is a mass radiography unit which is now averaging 100 examinations in each half-day period, and which, it is anticipated, will in time be capable of handling 300 to 500 daily. Other units may be installed, and it is possible that the whole of ...

... THE SEA FORTS OF THE THAMES The Great Structures Raised on Stilts at Key-Points in the Estuary MILITARY SEA FORTRESSES The seven towers comprising one of the Army forts planted on our shipping lanes to beat off mine-laying planes. The towers are of steel, mounted on concrete legs six of them carry A.-A. guns and the seventh is a control tower A CLOSE-UP OF ONE OF THE TOWERS The steel box is 36 ...

... I THE RED ARMY LIBERATES PRAGA. On the right is the Russian Marshal 1 Rokossovsky, Commander of the First Belorussian Army in the centre is Colonel- I General Bulganin on the left is Major-General Bewzjuk, Commander of the Polish I Kosciuszko Division. This picture was taken just after the Russian entry I A VIEW OF THE CITY OF WARSAW, as seen from the fortress of Praga, I now in the hands of ...

... A GERMAN SPECIMEN OF A LONG-RANGE PETROL TANK Like many of our own similar devices, this is made of compressed paper it is attached to fighter aircraft for the purpose of increasing their range on operational flights. When the petrol within is used up, the pilot can then jettison the tank. The specimen above was found near Brussels AN IMPRESSION OF THE GREAT GERMAN CONSTRUCTION AT WATTEN, now ...

... THERE are several hundred thousand men and women in this country who can judge of the authenticity of atmo sphere and detail in Mr. Hubert Nicholson's new novel, in which the constant background is a wartime factory and the dubi ous, brief joys to be snatched from the industrial town in a worker's spare time. HERE WHFRF THF WORL D IS OIJIFT (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) seems to me very definitely to ...

... The American net around the Japs in the Pacific is closing tighter each week. From all parts of the South-Western and Central Pacific come reports of new attacks by land and sea and new invasions of territory and islands held by the Japs for two years and more. The pictures reproduced on these pages have all reached London within the past few days. They illustrate recent operations and ...

... The Germans have been clinging on desperately to the islands in the mouth of the Scheldt, and to the small strip of land on the southern shore of the river, to prevent the Allies being able to use the great port of Antwerp, which fell into their hands almost undamaged. The islands of Walcheren and Beveland were heavily fortified, and the Leopold Canal, forming the frontier to the detached ...