... HOW THE GAP WAS CLOSED AT FALAISE, WHERE MAJOR D. V. CURRIE WON THE VICTORIA CROSS. The scene at St. Lambert-sur-Dives, where a handful of Canadians held the gap while the German armies trapped in the pocket were destroyed. This picture was taken in August 1944, and shows a German captain and some of his men surrendering in the village to the Canadians During the battles in Normandy in ...

... 'X'his section of the combined assault on the Western Front was made towards the frontier between Venlo and Roermond. Parallel with this line runs the now famous Eindhoven Road and on it, opposite Meijel and the main canal obstacles which had to be overcome, lies the Dutch town of Walkensvaard. The several crossings over the Noorden Canal and the Wessem Canal were soon merged into bigger ...

... Housing is the great domestic problem of the moment. Around it revolve a number of other problems, which cannot be settled until the bigger question has been satisfac torily mastered. The Research Divi sion of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, as one of its latest contributions to this subject, has breoared for the Ministry of Health suggestions for the layout and siting of the ...

... The attack of the Second Army through Geileiikirchen was part of a vast ofiensive carried out by six Allied Armies along the 400-mile front from Holland to the Alps, to burst open the gates of Germany by forcing a way through the Siegfried Line. At dawn on November 18, General Dempsey'S army, in co-opera tion with the American Ninth Army, made their first major penetration into Germany, ...

... TTic four pictures reproduced here have a his toric interest. Although only just released by the Censor, they were taken over four years ago-- on September 7, 1940. From then on, for nine months, London was bombarded from the air almost without cessation until May 10, 1941, when the Big Blitz virtually came to an end, with London unbeaten and the Germans just beginning to sample at the hands ...

... When the break-through was made by the Allied Armies through the last hills of the Apennines barring the way into the Lombardy Plain, it looked as if our task was going to be easier than, in fact, it proved to be. The hills are separated from the plain by the main Bologna high way as with a ruler; the railway follows it on an equally straight line. The area beyond is level enough, but heavily ...

... i nousanas unea tne route 01 tne pro cession for the funeral service at Cairo Cathedral of the late Lord Moyne, Resident British Minister in the Middle East, who was assassinated with his chauffeur, Lance-Corporal A. H. Fuller, R.A.S.C. The procession included contingents of British and Allied Forces, and of the Egyptian Army, members of the Diplomatic Corps and a representative of King Faruk. ...

... On ri g h t T h e Americans have been using two types of heavy artillery with great suc cess on the Western Front. By far the most generally and effec tively used has been the 1 55 -mm. howitzer mounted on a con verted Sherman tank chassis. These weapons can be hurried forward over rough ground under their own power to forward positions, from which they can pound nearby German targets ...

... J THE ADVANCE TOWARDS VENLO And the Fierce Fighting in the Bend of the Maas River The Latest Pictures from Holland The Second Army s operation to secure the area withm the bend of the Maas west of Venlo is going steadily forward in hazardous and difficult circumstances. Mines and mud are the main obstacles. The hamlet of America, east of Griendtsvern on the Helmond-Venlo railway, was reached ...

... IF a handful of bandits or malcontents had barricaded themselves in peacetime in a French port, scores of special correspondents would descend on the spot and cable tens of thousands of words daily. To-day, sieges a thousand times bigger go unrecorded. The gigantic struggle on the Rhine obliterates them. Yet, if we recover propor tion, what stories these forgotten little fronts intrinsically ...

... The long and brilliant history of the Royal Marines contains many records of fighting in tight corners. None rivals in concentrated severity the landing operation at Westkapelle, at the western tip of Walcheren. It is now clear that the air preparation which was expected did not take place owing to the grounding of the aircraft by fog. It was not until the afternoon, when weather conditions ...

... ANOTHER RAMBLE IN BARSET.-- The other day, in another place, I was trying to argue that the wartime practice of turning all our Allies into 100 per cent, angels and all our enemies into 100 per cent, (or more) devils, of dealing only in sweeping generalities, and reading only headlines and slogans, was a very dangerous practice and apt to lead to sudden disappointments and unexpected set ...