... 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 ...

... THE PRE-FABRICATED HARBOUR CONSTRUCTED ON THE FRENCH COAST FOR THE INVASION BY THE ALLIED ARMIES ON JUNE 6. The scene at Arromanches, showing the pier which led to the beaches of Normandy and through which the Invasion material flowed from Britain (See also page 99 of this issue) The building in Britain of harbours for the Normandy beaches, and the ferrying of them across the Channel for the ...

... ACCORDING to the Republican Senator Chandler, Mr. Churchill observed to him, that he didn't see why China should be admitted as one of the Big Four in her present state. There must be many people in this country who wish the Prime Minister did say so, and this without the slightest disrespect, ingratitude, or lack of appreciation towards the Chinese; not that they haven't ex perienced an ...

... 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 ...