... JAP SUICIDE PLANES ATTACK A BRITISH CARRIER IN JAPANESE WATERS TWO UNIQUE PICTURES FROM THE PACIFIC SHOWING THE SCENE ON THE FLIGHT DECK AFTER A JAP SUICIDE PILOT HAD CRASHED HIS AIRCRAFT ALONGSIDE THE CONTROL TOWER A feature of the recent naval operations off the Sakishima islands in support of the Okinawa invasion was the suicide attacks by Japanese aircraft on the warships taking part. ...

... MR. HAROLD LASKI MAKING AN ELECTION SPEECH, during the course of which he gave details of his attitude towards Mr. Churchill and the coming Election. On June 22 Mr. Laski made a speech at the Fortescue Road School in Collier's Wood. 1 his picture was taken during the course of it, as the speaker was out lining his attitude on current political affairs. Mr. Laski is the national Chairman of the ...

... r Hpn MHHJHHppf A TERRIBLE INDICATION OF THE FATE WHICH AWAITS MANY A JAPANESE TOWN This was the capital city of Okinawa Naha to-day it has just ceased to exist. Before the invasion by the Americans, 65,000 Japanese lived in Naha. To-day it lies in ruins, after continuous bombing by U.S. aircraft attacking from the air in support of the Tenth Army on the ground. Scarcely a building remains ...

... THE REMARKABLE SET OF SIX PICTURES GIVEN HERE RECORD THE CRASH OF A HELL-DIVER on the flight-deck of an American Essex-class aircraft-carrier the rescue of the crew and the smothering of the fire which broke out on board as a result of the crash I. With its wheels tangled in the ropes of the barrier on the deck, the Hell-diver approached amidships after its tail hook had failed to catch the ...

... The slaughter of Japanese on the isiand of Okinawa has been terrific. But yet the enemy fights on, although the final result cannot be in doubt. Everywhere in the Pacific the same 44 suicide tactics have been pursued but on Okinawa it has resulted in the bitterest struggle of the whole campaign to date. Up to June alone, over 75,000 of the enemy had been killed, but the remnants of the ...

... IMVPI After the invasion of Tarakan was well under way, a second Australian attack was opened against Jap positions in British North Borneo, Labuan Island and the State of Brunei. About a fortnight after the attack on Tarakan, the combined naval, land and air operations opened up in a wide semi-circle facing Brunei Bay. Labuan Island was the centre. This tree-fringed tropical island rises to ...

... T mmediately after the surrender of the great German armies massed in north-west Germany, the Allied military authorities were confronted with appal ling chaos. Hiere were millions of soldiers to dis arm, feed, and sort into camps there were the ordinary civilians multiplied by the hordes of refu gees from Berlin and eastern Germany, arriving by road or sea, under no supervision and without ...

... Bad Oeynhausen, Field-Marshal Montgomery's new Headquarters, lies on the right bank of the River Werre, a tributary of the Weser. It occupies a pleasant position under the West phalian hills, just where the Weser breaks through a narrow gorge known as the Porta Westphalica on to the Hanoverian Plain, on which Minden lies. These hills form the north-eastern face of the Teutoberg range of wooded ...

... BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE SOUTH SEAS. The officers come up for an airing on the bridge This picture was taken during a quiet moment on patrol by a British submarine operating in the Far East. The submarine's officers, in native costume, are here posed on the gun platform. From left to right they are Sub-i_ieut. R. C. H. Mason, R.N., of High Holborn, London (navigator) Lieutenant R. F. N. ...

... R.A.F. Transport Command, which began to fly troops to India early last month, hopes that by the autumn 10,000 troops will be flown each way every month. Dakota aircraft are now being used, but Yorks and Liberators will come into operation later. In this drawing, the first plane is an Avro York the other is a Dakota. The York is based on the Lancaster it can carry nity passengers on snort ...

... ITrom the days just before the beginning of the war, when the evacuation of some of the schoolchildren of the Metropolis was being carried out by pleasure steamers, the Port of London has been working at full speed. From the very first, the Port was subject to attack by air craft, U-boats, E-boats and mines. When war came, every facility was turned over to the nation's service, and the Port ...

... THIS week-end marks the fortieth month of the activities of War Office Selection Boards in this country. Over 100,000 candidates for com missions in the Army have been sifted, and nearly 50,000 approved as future officers. Even now that the war in Europe is over, hundreds of youngsters, and a few oldsters, are being vetted every week. Last year, one in three was accepted, and one in ten sent ...