... bmi^ j n i w,i j. any of the secrets of the Luftwaffe have been revealed to the Allies since the German capitulation. One of them has been the jet-propelled Me 262, which made its appearance over the Euro pean battlefields last year during the break-through attempt by the Nazis in the early part of the present year, numbers of them were encountered by our pilots. But it made its appearance too ...

... Much of the mystery surrounding the King of the Belgians has been dispersed by his liberation by the Americans at Strobl, near Salzburg. He was married to Miss Leila Baels, a commoner who later became the Princess de Rethy, in 1941, after his arrest by the Germans. (His first wife. Queen Astrid, was killed in a car smash in 1935.) The King has now announced that, owing to ill health, he cannot ...

... The four-engined Shetland flying-boat is the largest British aircraft that has yet flown. It is powered by four Bristol Centaurus engines, has a fully-loaded weight of 130,000 lb., a wing-span of 130 ft. and an overall length of 110 ft. Designed and constructed by Short Bros., with the collaboration of Saunders Roe, this mighty 58-ton aircraft has a maximum speed of 267 m.p.h. Cruising at ...

... THE ACTUAL CAPTURE OF YONTAN AIRFIELD, ON OKINAWA ISLAND, on the opening day of the assault in the Ryukyus in this aerial view American tanks can be seen sweeping across the field, whilst American gunners are already manning the captured anti-aircraft installa tions. From a military point of view, the Yontan airfield was one of the salient objectives in the Ryukyus it is only a mile from the ...

... ^verywhere i n Germany extra ordinary scenes have I been witnessed on the roads since the entry of the Allied armies. The volume of civilian I traffic has varied from a few peasants seated I on their piled-up goods to long columns of men and women liber ated from slave occupations and seek ing their homes in distant countries. Uur soldiers have been guiding these people in the general I ...

... RANCE'S YOUNGEST GENERAL IS AN ACE RUGBY PLAYER He is General Jacques Chaban-Delmas, formerly in the French Underground Service, and just over thirty. During the rising in Paris, it was he who received the surrender of the beaten Germans. In the Rugby match against the R.A.F. in Paris in November last, he scored the only points for France THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF AUSTRIA-- Dr. Karl Renner He is ...

... ALL OVER bar the shouting? Well, not quite perhaps, but near enough the end for those not going East to begin planning their own private operations again. Interviewed yesterday, Lieutenant Depthcharge, R.N.V.R., informed us that his post-war plans were entirely subject to the whims of a young party named Polly. She's getting shockingly fat, as I told her on my last leave, he said, but a few ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 297 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. After the Nightmare. After the nightmare, the dream; semi consciousness with a vague sense of relief. That is still my state of mind. And a great part of my sense of relief is based on thankfulness to-day that those gallant Dutch are past the worst of their long agony and free at last. This at least is Holland's V.V.V. Day. This Denmark's. ...

... On May Day, General Hodges, the Commanding General of the U.S. First Army, attended a dinner in celebration of the Russian-American link-up at Torgau. The invitation was given by Colonel- General Jadov, who is in command of the Fifth Russian Guards Army which made the link-up on the Elbe. He pre sented to General Hodges the medal which his army was awarded for its part in the victory of Stalin ...

... THE dispatch with which S.H.A.E.F. correspond ents were ushered back across the Elbe after being allowed to celebrate with the Red Army, was in harmony with the banning of foreign observers from the forward zones ever since 1941. In this case the need for special security was stressed, amid uncon trollable mass migration of friend and foe. Some see in the sustained Soviet dim-out a lack of ...

... ON THE ROAD TO BERLIN Russian tanks move up through the outlying villages towards the heart of the Reich, accompanied by lorry-loads of Red Army infantry. When near the city, columns swung round in all directions to encircle the capital and to cut off all the Nazi lines of retreat SOVIET TROOPS ON THE MARCH They are here seen moving up in vast numbers, on foot, in armoured carriers, in lorries ...

... THE PROMINENT FRENCH STATESMEN AND SOLDIERS FREED AT ITTER CASTLE, IN THE TYROLEAN ALPS From left to right in this picture are M. Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister at the time of the Fall of France General A. McAuliffe, Commander of the 103rd Infantry Division, who carried out the rescue Madame Weygand General Gamelin M. Edouard Daladier and General Weygand; They are seen on the steps of the ...