... THE DAM-BURSTING EXPLOITS OF THE R.A.F. THE MOMENT ON THE AFTERNOON OF OCTOBER 7, as Lancaster of Bomber Command attacked the Kembs Dam across the Rhine a 1 2 ,000-lb bomb bursts at its western end and makes a huge gap in the immensely important dam in the Belfort sector During the past few days the R.A.F. have made three very important dam- bursting raids on Germany and German-held Europe. ...

... A THAMES BRIDGE BUILT SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR AT WESTMINSTER This emergency bridge near the Houses of Parliament was erected for use in the event of the permanent bridges in the vicinity being put out of action by enemy bombs. It is now being used by pedestrians who normally used Hungerford footbridge, since the damage to the latter by German flying bombs. This picture reveals the ...

... 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 ...

... 1^ J ;;f ^/^fter the capture of Rimini or the morning of September 21 the Eighth Army emulated the Legions of Caesar's day by crossing the Rubicon. To-day, the Rubicon is known as the Uso River it is a little stream which threads inland from the Adriatic north of the town of Rimini. Our modern Legionaries waded across it or drove their guns and lorries across, in their pursuit of scurrying ...

... IT seems to be the German plan to fight hard on the whole Left Bank of the Rhine and to rouse the nation to a sacrificial act in keeping with the words of Die Wacht am Rhein. The ground is more favourable to defence than anywhere else in the north-west, with its mixture of muddy flat lands and ruined industrial centres, minor mountain ranges and dense forests, and the broad, swift Rhine ...

... HOW THE MEUSE-ESCAUT CANAL WAS FIRST CROSSED-- by a Class Five Raft This picture was taken on the bank of the Canal de Junction de la Meuse. The Class Five Raft consists of girders on two collapsible assault rafts. From the time the material was unloaded to the time that the First vehicle was taken across the Canal took about thirty minutes. First, an assault boat was sent across with infantry ...

... YY/hen the British 49th Infantry Division the Fighting 49th converged on Havre to liberate that important Channel port, there loomed up before them the great Gothic tower and steeple of Harfleur Church. Fighting from street to street, they reached the city's vast dock areas. As they battled in from the east, along the bank of the Canal de Tancarville au Havre, seen on the left of the above ...