... IN American war-reporting circles on the Continent there is a growing belief that the United States intend to leave a permanent impress upon Bavaria before closing down the occupation years ahead. Current happenings support this deduction, the U.S. Military Government in Munich has begun to restore the Catholic Government of 1933, which Hitler deleted when he ahsorbed everything into One Reich ...

... Just before the end came in North-West Germany, the R.A.F. had the task of smashing the Nazi attempt at Dunkirk flights to Denmark and Norway. Enemy troops were filling the roads between Schwenn and Lubeck, and frantically trying to escape into Denmark before the Second Army cut them off. Tempests, Spitfires and Typhoons all took part and exacted a heavy toll of the German traffic. It was not ...

... THE English have a reputation for phlegmatic coolness, sanity and unemotional behaviour. Yet, oddly enough, most of the famous eccentrics, those lunatic adventurers whose stories are told the world over, have been English. They have mainly preferred to live abroad, no doubt finding in foreign countries a more favourable atmosphere and greater tolerance for their exploits. Une ot the most ...

... The sudden drive into Belgium and Luxembourg by the Germans began on Sunday, December 17, when, after a day of artillery attack, Rundstedt opened the Christmas offensive by pouring in two great columns on a 60-mile front between Monschau and Trier. He had chosen the position well, as this part of the line had been quiet for a long time, and was lightly held. The area was high and dry, away ...

... Austria, like Germany, is to be under Allied Military Government, the country being divided into four zones, to be directed by Russia, the U.S.A., Great Britain and France, with a Control Commission supervising the whole country, sitting in Vienna. The Russian Army occupied Vienna in the middle of April, but the war was not over in other parts of Austria until the general surrender on May 7. ...

... i j THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN FROM START TO FINISH-- JULY 10, 1943 TO MAY 2, 1945: A SPECIAL SPHERE MAP SHOWING THE WHOLE PROGRESS OF THE FIGHTING UP THE MAINLAND, TO THE VICTORIOUS BREAK-THROUGH AT RAVENNA IN APRIL 1945, which brought about the collapse of the German and neo-Fascist forces in Lombardy and the final capitulation at the Caserta Palace It was on July 10, 1943, that the Allied ...

... Qne ol the most astonishing features of the German lefence measures was the employ- nent of concrete structures of ex- :eptional strength. This entailed in output of cement on a huge >cale. Some of the structures irected in concrete were on a rydopean scale. The West Wall lefences consumed an amount of cement bewildering to contem plate. It was probably only pos- able with slave labour. The ...