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THE LIBERATION OF GREECE: Scenes in the Capital as the British Forces Landed from the Air and sea
... A fter three-and-a-half years of occupation by the Germans, Athens was set free on October 1 4 when British troops and Greek partisans entered the world-famous city, from which the Germans had fled. At the beginning of October parachute troops arrived on the Peloponnesus, to prepare an airfield. Greek villagers rushed down to welcome the long-awaited liberators. Landing craft arrived later. An ...
The ATTACK UPON EAST PRUSSIA
... 'T'he Russians have at last broken through part of the northern defences of East Prussia, and are advancing westward along the road to Konigsberg. A long pause had taken place since their first approach to the frontier of East Prussia last August, when their rapid forward movement was driving the Germans from city after city. The enemy seemed unable to stop anywhere, but at the frontier of the ...
The New London Stage Productions
... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE CIRCLE (Haymarket).-- The 1944 theatre has just been blamed for being revivalist, although the accusation has not, I imagine, any religious significance. If all plays revived were as brilliant, and their performance as enjoyable, as Somerset Maugham's The Circle, which is the only modern play in the present repertory season at the Haymarket, there would be no need ...
IN PARIS TO-DAY: The Latest Pictures from the French Capital
... A FAMOUS SPORTS CENTRE WHICH IS NOW A GAOL FOR COLLABORATORS The scene in the Velodrome, where some 3,000 men and women are now incarcerated, awaiting trial for treason and collaboration. Many of the women among the suspects have already had their heads shaven. The French Red Cross takes care of the sick and injured. Before the war the Velodrome was the scene of many sporting spectacles THE ...
THE HIGH COMMAND IN ITALY
... 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 ...
A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 270
... 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 ...
The AMERICAN INVASION of the PHILIPPINES: And the Occupation of Leyte Island on October 20 --Special Sphere ..
... 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 ...
THE PRE-FABRICATED PORT: A Complete Impression of the Harbour at Arromanches, on the Normandy Coast
... 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 ...
PERSONALITY PAGE
... 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 ...
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... 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
... 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 ...