... THE War marches on and so do its outstanding personalities-- a good many of them off the stage with each passing year, for newcomers to take their places, the while a small number of human fixtures draw upon themselves the spotlight through out. Who now thinks of Laval, Petain, Badoglio, Mussolini, Koht, Quisling, Papagos, Reynaud, Deat, Abetz, Cavallero, Antonescu or Baudouin Yet such were ...

... A very considerable number of war maps have pur ported to show the position of the Siegfried Line this has been rendered literally as a line, with little variation in form. In actual reality, however, the Siegfried Line is not so simple. The fortifications, pill-boxes and mortar batteries are not arranged in a narrow strip such as some maps would seem to suggest. The Siegfried Line is a long ...

... The replica of the Japanese battle ship shown on the right has been erected on a desert in the western United States it is used by American air crews to improve their gunnery marksmanship and attain a high degree of precision in bombing. Their skill and patient rehearsal are paying rich dividends in the Pacific, where at least 366 major enemy warships have been definitely sunk since the start ...

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... THREE HUNDRED WOMEN POLITICAL PRISONERS ARE LIBERATED after the capture of the last Alsatian town on the German border Hagenau was captured by the Seventh Army. The German forces there were in such a hurry to get out that they forgot the 300 Frenchwomen whom they had imprisoned in the gaol. Some of them had been in Hagenau Prison for over two years they had come from towns all over France, ...

... THE practice may be deplored of publicly dis cussing the major effects upon Germany of unconditional surrender, as calculated to give Goebbels heavy ammunition, though it is worth noting that our expert propagandists think the error would be in leaving treatment undefined. This might pass for irresolution. Whatever you think, the matter has been taken out of our hands by Mr. Churchill's ...

... Since its first appearance with the R.A.F., the Mosquito has undergone many modifications in a variety of roles fighter, night-fighter, intruder, bomber, photographic reconnaissance, etc. The new pictures by Mr. Charles E. Brown given here show the XVI version, the high-altitude blockbuster bomber. This is the type mostly used for the consistent night bombing of Berlin arid German industrial ...

... After a period of comparative quiet, after the Russians had made their first approach to the Hungarian capital, the Red Army succeeded in crossing the Danube and then striking west and north-west One thrust was directed towards the south-west corner of Lake Balaton, and soon the whole of its eastern side had been cleared but the major pressure then developed in a northerly direction the ...

... THE Germans had signified their surprise at French recovery prior to General de Tassigny's sweep through the Belfort Gap to the Rhine. Now that powerful French armoured forces have the option of attacking northwards up the Rhine Valley, historic invasion route from Alsace into the Bavarian Palatinate, through Landau, Speyer, Ludwigshaven and Worms to Mainz itself, the Germans must be thinking ...

... Z' PRESERVE ALL WOODWORK N I BRUSHING It matters little how you protect your fencing against rot and decay, so long as it is done thoroughly with Solignum Wood Preservative. Brush coating on exist ing fencing is the most effective way but even Solignum will not last for ever so give all your wood work an occasional application of Solignum and its life will be preserved indefinitely. With new ...

... ON the threshold of 1945, it may be permissible, on this page, to pause in the consideration of new books, and to take a look at the book trade as a whole in this sixth year of war. Like every other industry, the trade is looking forward to a fresh set of problems at the end of the German war. Unlike some industries which are more cohesively aligned, it does not look as if much forward ...

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