... FIGHTING IN THE STREETS OF A DUTCH CITY BRITISH HEAVY MORTARS IN ACTION AMONGST THE HOUSES OF HERTOGENBOSCH BEFORE THE GERMAN RESISTANCE PETERED OUT. Following the drive by General Dempsey's men, the greater part of Hertogenbosch was in British hands by October 27, but at one or two places parties of Germans were then still fighting fiercely to hold what was left to them. Fierce fighting, ...

... FLYING personnel of the R.A.F.'s Coastal Com mand, Bomber Command, Transport Command, and even Fighter Command, must be wondering what place there may be for them in post-war civil aviation. They will have read about the conferences on civil aviation, the latest of which has been taking place in Chicago. Many of them, of course, will be glad to return to their peacetime jobs; yet others will ...

... The two pictures (above and on left), taken during the construction of the Allied oil pipe-line which stretches from the Normandy beaches into the heart of France, give a glimpse of how one of the unique engineering feats of the war was carried out A special U.S. Army engineer organisation, known as the Petroleum Distribution Group, was in charge of the work and, despite continual hazard from ...

... P rom May II up to the beginning of this month, the Germans have used thirty divisions in Italy. Of these, they have lost 34,000 killed, 104,000 wounded and 56,000 prisoners a total of 1 94,000-- equivalent to the total destruction of fifteen full-strength divisions. Allied losses during the same period may not yet be pub lished. These figures were given by General Alexander during his recent ...

... SUPPLIES FOR THE BURMA FRONT NOW TRAVEL THROUGH THE ARAKAN TUNNEL A mule-train is here emerging from one of the famous Maungdaw- Buthidaung tunnels in the Arakan. The shell-torn entrance recalls the bitter fighting early in 1944 at this spot when British and Indian troops blasted Japanese forces from their strongholds and regained control of the important Highway PAYING OFF THE NATIVE HELPERS ...

... HOW THE BIG BOMBERS WERE GUIDED THROUGH A SNOWSTORM TO ESSEN: The Pathfinders set sky-markers for the 1,000 heavies which took part in the raid on the great armament and railway centre on October 23- Drawing by Roland Davies When Bomber Command sent more than 1,000 bombers to pound Essen on the night of October 23, I the skies began to cloud over as the big force approached the Continent, ...

... When the Allied forces converged on Breda, mainly from the east, they entered a territory of very great historic interest. The existing town contains a very fine Gothic church. The tomb! of Engelbrech II (a.D. 1451-1504) is renowned/ and the remains of the ancient fortress still dominates the northern part of the town. It carries the memory back to the time when Spam, as the overlord of the ...

... A. F. Pears Ltd. i A. F. Pears Ltd. i: Preparing to be a Beautiful Lady Molly gets admiring glances wherever she goes. She's so full of life and sparkle. Look at her now 1 She's been throwing that quoits ring most of the morning and she's still ready for more. Her pretty little face is flushed with excitement and tanned by the sun, but her complexion is as smooth and flawless as it was after ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 272 I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Guildhall Review 1944,-- The Premier is a master of words, and masters of all arts can, and do, take risks which lesser men dare not take. I judge (and it is of no importance) that Mr. Churchill took less time to prepare his Guildhall 1944 speech than any other of his notable public war speeches. What he said was as sound as ever in sense, ...

... THE END OF THE TIRPITZ Sunk in Tromso Fiord by the R.A.F. on November 12 On Sunday morning last the great German battle ship Tirpitz met her end. Twenty-nine Lancasters of Bomber Command, making a surprise attack, knocked out the last serviceable enemy capital ship, in the Tromso Fiord, where she had taken shelter on her way back to Germany from the Alten Fiord, in the northern part of Norway ...

... VY/hen the sea-walls surrounding the island of Walcheren were breached by the R.A.F., the floods were slow to start. The area around Westkapelle where the first breach was made was, it is true, quickly under water but it took some days for the whole island to become affected. Then it was announced that nine-tenths of Walcheren was under water. How true that estimate was may be seen from the ...

... TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE.-- In the course of my life, the lengthening journey has been sweetened by several friendships. I fancy I have been blessed with a high average in that line of con fectionery. Among my friends there still survive three, or perhaps four, who have taught me something of the value of truth in intercourse. If you reflect, you will probably agree that in human relations truth ...