... THE SWIMMING TANKS WHICH OVERRAN THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE AFTER D-DAY A CLOSELY-GUARDED WARTIME SECRET NOW REVEALED BY THE WAR OFFICE. This picture shows one of the D.D. (Duplex Drive) tanks coming ashore after the crossing of the Rhine Planning for the re-entry of Europe began immediately after Dunkirk. Faced with the prospect of a major assault across the Channel, and the rivers which lay ...

... The six special drawings reproduced here have been made from the account by William A. Lawrence, science writer for the New York Times and a Nobel prizewinner. He flew in one of the three Super- Fortresses to Nagasaki and wit nessed the explosion from start to finish. Extracts from his report the first account published are given in the box on the facing page A GIANT BALL OF FIRE RISES, as ...

... Vandalism in the village and church of Imber, in Wiltshire, amounting to wanton and vulgar destruction during the occupation of the village by troops for battle practice, is alleged in letters written by Viscount Long of Wraxall to the Secretary for War, the Ministries of Health and Agriculture, and the Bishop of Salisbury. All the inhabitants of the village to the number of 150 were removed ...

... During the earlier stage of the German thrust into 1 Belgium it was frequently stated that all planes were grounded owing to dense fog and mist. On some days, when German massed divisions were creeping steadily forward on all the roads through Luxembourg and Eastern Belgium, the artillery could do little or nothing to stop this crawling, but ceaseless, advance. With visibility of a few yards, ...

... Touring recent weeks British piloti have reported that the Luft waffe have been coming up in greater strength. This new development follows the recovery by the German armies of their eyes the high flying, very fast, jet-propelled Me. 262s. Previously, the pilots ol the latter had always avoided close fighting, obviously under orders. The Me. 262 is a single-seat, low- wing monoplane its two ...

... A. F. Pears Ltd. A. F. Pears Ltd. We regret that Pears Transparent Soap is in short supply just now. Preparing to be a Beautiful Lady Sylvia loves to make drawings of everything she sees. She is very serious about it, and intends to be an artist when she grows up. Sylvia herself is a subject for any artist, with her lovely complexion and the light playing on her nut-brown hair. Her mother is ...

... THE PRIME MINISTER TOURS HIS CONSTITUENCY, ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. CHURCHILL ADDRESSING A CROWD AT WOODFORD THROUGH THE MICROPHONE AND IN THE RAIN. Mr. Churchill's tour lasted for six hours, during which he addressed some 10,000 people The constituency which Mr. Churchill will contest during the coming election is Woodford this is the new constituency which has resulted from the splitting of the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 300 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A Mad World?-- How often in the past years, between bouts of cheerfulness or efforts to cheer, have I bored readers with reminders that four years of total war left the world pretty mad in 1919 and, a fortiori, might do so again in 1945 onwards. Messrs. Eden and Attlee returned from 'Frisco to tell us that all goes pretty smoothly and ...

... (see also pp. 264-5) GERMAN OFFICIALS ARRESTED WHEN BRITISH TROOPS SEIZED THE HIGH COMMAND HEADQUARTERS Some of them were late-risers and were only partly-dressed. One is still in his underclothes, while others line the corridor, face to the wall, in various stages of undress THE FOREMOST PRISONER, standing with bowed head facing the wall, bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler. When ...

... 'The German Navy employed three types of midget U-boats, of which the two one-man types are shown above and on the right. That known as Biber has a surface displacement of 6 tons. Its length is 29 ft. 6 ins. and overall beam 4 ft. 9 ins. It is armed with two modified electric torpedoes, slung one on either side outboard. These have a range of about 5,000 yards at 20 knots. In place of one or ...

... Once more the Rock, that preposterous freak of geology which thrusts its towering cliffs into the Western Mediterranean, has played its part in a long-drawn-out struggle. From the moment when the Rock took action stations as rapidly as any warship at sea, it has remained ever on guard, ever on duty. During many decades it has boasted of an increasing number of rock-hewn emplacements, but ...

... The German Air Force did not emerge from the war as an un defeated organisation. It was as decisively beaten in the air as the Army was on land. Since the crossing of the Elbe by the British in the closing stages of the land fighting, the Luftwaffe made desperate but hopeless attempts to attack our bridgeheads before finally giving up the struggle in the face of overwhelming British and ...