... 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 ...

... THE BRITISH ARMY IN GERMANY ON THE ROAD BETWEEN GANGELT AND GEILENKIRCHEN, just before the capture of the latter town-- twelve British tanks take part in the great barrage put down on the German positions just across the border Geilenkirchen lies within the Reich, over 20 miles to the west of Cologne it was formerly a town of 20,000 people (of whom only 300 remain to-day), and had been ...

... HOW THE NEWEST V BOMB IS LAUNCHED, AND HOW IT TRAVELS TOWARDS THE STRATOSPHERE TO ITS OBJECTIVE. The bomb is launched straight upwards for a considerable distance it then speeds through the rarefied atmosphere at a colossal speed (estimated to be 3,000 m.p.h.) until near its objective in Britain, when the speed drops to an estimated 2,000 m.p.h., when it then begins to descend. At the highest ...

... T*\uring the British advance along Route Nine in the direction of Forli (near the birthplace of Mussolini), sappers of the Eighth Army have come across a new type of German mine. This contains the barest minimum of metal, with the actual casing itself made out of a fibre, or plastic, substance the only metal part is the detonator, which is approximately the size of a 2-in. nail. Many of the ...

... HPhe Iowa is the latest of the American Navy's battle ships. She has recently joined the New Jersey, Wisconsin, Illinois and Kentucky at sea, and has participated with the famous Task Force 58 in the Pacific. Iowa is a battleship of 45,000 tons she was laid down in New York in June 1940, and was .launched on February 22, 1943. She has a complement of approxi mately 2,500 men, and has an ...

... may not be a serious thing in itself. The wheels will go on turning as before, the will to continue is not affected. On the other hand, it is not a phenomenon that one would like to see repeated next spring or summer. Plainly, these psychological ups and downs can be no good thing amid ONE does not have to circulate long in London these days to be conscious of an atmosphere of disappointment. ...

... I he war on the East Front is being carried out on an unprecedented scale. For hundreds of miles the battle rages, right down to the Hun garian Plains. Last week we gave a diagram-drawing of the East Prussia area to-day we switch to the south, to show the inroads made by the Red Army in their dnve towards Budapest, the River Danube, and, ultimately perhaps, Vienna. Moving from the west, Szeged ...

... NOW ON EXHIBITION IN LONDON A map showing how the capital was defended from the German flying-bombs. The defences began with the gun belt along the coast and extended right up to the London suburbs The Exhibition is on view at the Piccadilly showrooms of Rootes, Ltd. it was opened by Mr. Duncan Sandys. Prominent among the exhibits are a complete Hying-bomb, which was recovered almost intact, ...

... The area stretching south-east from Nijmegen to Venlo, in Holland (where the Allies advanced towards Venraij), is very difficult country for the attackers, consisting as it does largely of marsh and woodland. The move ments against the Germans were carried out mainly at night to make such operations possible, use was made of the searchlights to create artificial moonlight by projecting the ...