... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 270 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A Decisive Victory-- For gotten.-- The naval battle of the Philippines appears to have been a crushing, even decisive, victory, and perhaps one of the world's decisive battles. It was fought for four days at least under wireless silence. When preliminary results were released by the Allied commands, this tremendous battle and achievement of ...

... On May 4, 1942, the last American strong hold in the Philippines-- the fortified island of Corregidor, at the mouth of Manila Bay-- surrendered after bitter fighting, and after the struggle on the neighbouring Bataan Peninsula had ceased on April 9. Now the Americans are back in the Philippines. Un rriday, Uctober ZU, General MacArthur, the Allied Supreme Commander in the Pacific, attacked the ...

... In June 1943 the Chief of Combined Operations held a meeting in London of Commanders, both British and U.S., with the representatives of the British Service Ministries, to hear reports of the equipment that was being provided for the Invasion of France, and to consider what additional equipment could be produced in the time available. Amongst other things, the meeting decided that artificial ...

... MISS CLAIRE LUCE RETURNS TO ENGLAND The well-known American actress recently arrived in London in uniform, on her way to entertain U.S. troops. Now forty-one years of age, Miss Luce made frequent appearances in London before the war. For some time past she has been in New York A NEW COIFFURE FOR MISS LANA TURNER This new hair style has been adopted by the screen actress for the film she is now ...

... AN AMERICAN MAJOR-GENERAL IN ITALY IS MADE A BRITISH K.C.B.E. Mediterranean Navy, Army and Air Force chiefs after the ceremony from left to right Vice- Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, Lieut.-General Ira C. Eaker, Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, General Alex ander, Major-General John K. Cannon, General Sir H. Maitland Wilson and Admiral Sir John Cunningham. Major-General John K. Cannon, Commanding ...

... THE BRITISH ADVANCE ON TILBURG, IN HOLLAND. THE BAILEY BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER RAISEL AT MAESGESTEL, as troops of the Second Army moved up for the capture of the town. Lorries, tanks and infantry all had to cross over this narrow causeway On October 28, the important town of Tilburg was reported to be completely clear of the Germans. This was one of a series of operations carried out by General ...

... THE R.A.F. BREAK OPEN A FRENCH GAOL To Free 100 Doomed French Patriots The Last Flight of Group Captain Pickard T^etails of one of the great operations carried out by the R.A.F. earlier in the year have now been released. On February 18, 1944, a Mosquito wing of the Second Tactical Air Force carried out an attack on the prison at Amiens in an attempt to assist more than 100 prisoners of the ...

... AS THE ATTACK ON HERTOGENBOSCH WAS LAUNCHED BY THE SECOND ARMY An Avre tank, fitted with fascine bundles for filling in ditches, approaches the village of Nuland, while British infantrymen advance alongside it. It is around Hertogenbosch (where the Germans have some 40,000 men) that the enemy line began to crack last week ONE OF THE THREE LARGE GERMAN GUNS IN THE SCHELDT POCKET captured by the ...

... Touring the past few weeks great support has been given to the Second British Army in Holland by Typhoon fighter-bombers of the Second Tactical Air Force. By cutting railroads and bridges in Ger many and Holland, the bombers have thrown the supply system for the German armies on the Western Front into a state of chaos and added greatly to the difficulties of the Nazi High Command. Elsewhere in ...

... If one is asked whether bombing can ever be precise, in the sense that gunnery is precise, the answer is undoubtedly yes, with the proviso that it is rarely worth trying, because it can be terribly expensive in the face of determined opposition. Theoretically, one big bomb in the right place will put paid to a ship, a bridge or a dock just as effectively as half-a- dozen bombs in a pattern. ...

... IT is possible that by the time this appears in print, the Ministry of Economic Warfare will have been dispersed except for its Intelligence side. Lord Selborne, the present Minister, announced recently that he expected it would be the first war time Ministry to close, and it looks as though the time has now arrived. The last ball-bearings have rolled out of Sweden; Turkey has put an embargo ...

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