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... The Germans are reported to have had many misfires with their big rocket weapons. Com mander Kenneth Edwards has reported that, in the first experi ments carried out under British control at Cuxhaven on October I, the 8-ton pressure came on to the pump and the rocket made a noise like an express train coming out of a tunnel, but the 25-ton pressure failed, and the rocket did not leave the ...
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... Approximately 3,000 Dutch women and children were evacuated from Surabaya on November 4, after con siderable delay caused by Indonesian attacks on the convoys bringing civilians to the evacuation point. Two days prior to the evacuation, one convoy of twenty trucks was attacked and only three of them managed to get through. The casualty list was about sixty women and children either killed, ...
... fHE RUSSIAN RAID IN BERLIN #IM POLICE IN BERLIN ENTER THE BRITISH SECTOR IN SEARCH OF DESERTERS 0M THE RED ARMY During the course of this raid, the Russians raided w Headquarters of the British Army's No. 5 Public Relations Service. On November 24 the Russian Military Police carried out a search for Russian deserters they entered the British sector and carried out a two-day search, patrolling ...
... T THE ENTRANCE TO THE GERMAN FACTORY established in the former iron-mine at Thil, in France. This was the spot where German V bombs were made by slave labour before its caDture bv the Americans THE ACID VATS IN THE UNDERGROUND FACTORY AT THIL Eight thousand workers were employed here, to turn out 200 V bombs each day. An American war correspondent is here inspecting the factory A PILE OF ...
... HELIGOLAND AGAIN IN BRITISH HANDS THE OCCUPATION OF THE GERMAN ISLAND IN THE NORTH SEA. The scene among the wreckage as Rear-Admiral Muirhead Gould met the Colonel of the Guards who have now taken over on the island In the year 1807, the rocky island of Heligoland, which guards the entrance to the Weser and Elbe Rivers in the North Sea, was taken from Holstein it remained in British hands till ...
... THE END OF BERLIN AS THE CAPITAL CITY OF THE NAZIS THE SCENE AT THE BRANDENBURGER TOR, AT THE CITY'S HEART, as the Russians approached-- to find it a sea of fire. This is the view looking towards the famous Unter den Linden- Drawing by W. G. Whitaker The Brandenburg Gate is the Marble Arch of Berlin, near the Tiergarten, where the remaining Nazis made their last stand against the victorious ...
... A SCENE ON THE ISLAND OF OKINAWA A great shell-burst as the japs opposed the U.S. Marines at the crossing of the second ridge in their sweep south from the American bridgehead. The Marines are racing to shelter to avoid fragments from the giant shell THE JAPANESE USE LAND-MINES AGAINST LOW-FLYING AMERICAN AIRCRAFT This is a new wrinkle in the desperate Jap defence attempt against the hard ...
... THE LIBERATION OF PEGU, ON THE ROAD TO RANGOON Troops of the Fourteenth Army mopping up in the burning city after its capture A CORPORAL (FROM CARLISLE) HAS CAPTURED A JAP PRISONER He was found sniping near Pegu, and was brought in, in the usual scanty attire of the jungle-bred Japs, after having been blindfolded. Pegu is a vital road-and-rail junction fifty miles to the north of Rangoon, on ...
... IN THE BAVARIAN ALPS Tanks of the U.S. 10th Armoured Division enter the famous resort of Garmisch Parten- kirchen. In the background, the snow-capped peaks lend a most attractive touch to the grim war scene below WHERE HERMANN GOERING LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS NEAR HIS BELOVED FUHRER AT BERCHTESGADEN The ruins of his summer residence after the R.A.F. had bombed it and the surrounding district. ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 293 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Waterloo Run.-- The hunt is up, and some of the field have thrown caution to the winds. But the Master and the Whips know that even a Waterloo Run is liable to checks. I would not wave aside the possibility that the Nazis may yet establish a check-line between the western spearheads and Berlin. Mean while, when every day a glittering prize ...
... 'The welfare of Burma's rural population is closely bound up with the welfare of her forests. There have been con flicting reports on how the Burma forests fared under Japanese occupation, but it now appears that the teak forests, except in the most easily accessible parts of the Pogu Yomas, have not suffered serious damage except locally, where there has been some reckless cutting of young ...