... HOMEWARD-BOUND AMERICAN TROOPS RE-CROSS TO THE UNITED STATES ON THE GIANT BRITISH LINER QUEEN MARY: The first cross-Atlantic voyage that vessel has undertaken since Victory Day, with 14,000 American soldiers crowding her decks Now that the war in Europe is over, the hundreds ol thousands of American soldiers who helped to bring it to a victorious conclusion are already being transported back ...

... The Eagle's Nest was built for Adolf Hitler in 1938. It stands on the peak of a mountain which is nearly a mile higher than the surrounding valley. This house, overlooking the town of Berchtesgaden and much higher than the Führer's own residence, the Berghof, was made of granite carved out of the nearby mountain-side: it was used by Hitler for important conferences or when he wished for ...

... --HI ■I On May 11, 1945, the 27,000-ton Essex-cla carrier Bunker Hill was off the island Okinawa, in the Pacific, assisting in the investing operations. On her deck were thirty-four waiting aircraft, when three Japanese suicide planes can hurtling down. The first hit the ship fair and squad a delayed-action bomb pierced the flight-day and passed through the side of the hull, sends the parked ...

... JsJow that the war in Europe is over, very big Allied concentrations are being made in the Pacific zone of operations, where the treacherous and resourceful Japs are obstinately refusing to accept the inevitable, despite that it means the virtual obliteration of their industries and industrial plant as promised by General Arnold recently, when detailing what Japan has to expect when the full ...

... BBSS Mgjjwgj ggH ■MBBiflH Details of still another of Britain's newest aircraft have just been released by the Ministry of Aircraft Production. This is the Westland Welkin single seat stratosphere fighter, which has been de signed to combat the menace of the high flying raider. With a wing-span of 70 ft., it is the largest of the Miigic-bcai iigmcis now in production. Its total weight is 17 ...

... By Sunday last, the British and American leaders at the Berlin Conference had arrived in the German capital Marshal Stalin travelled by tram over the newly-restored Moscow-Warsaw-Berlin route. The Con ference is being held at the Palace of Sans Souci in Potsdam, and the whole area has been sealed off on grounds of military security. The Prime Minister flew from Hendaye President Truman crossed ...

... RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS IN BERLIN, where the Kommandantura (the four- Power ruling body) met to settle the problem of feeding German civilians in the British and American sectors of the city THE SEARCH FOR SOUVENIRS IN THE BERLIN CHANCELLERY Tangled sup ports of the roof hang low over a party of British and American troops and war reporters searching Hitlers Headquarters for souvenirs. They found ...

... TIMBER FROM SWEDEN FOR BRITAIN'S HOUSING DRIVE Carrying nearly a million super feet of timber, the Swedish cargo ship Alstern docked tat King's Lynn, Norfolk the first foreign ship to arrive since the outbreak of war after a voyage from Kristindhamn, in Sweden. It will be followed by more shipments of timber, now a priority requirement for Britain's housing and reconstruction programme YOUTH ...

... STETTINIUS'S SUCCESSOR-- THE NEW U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE. MR. JAMES F. BYRNES, former Justice of the Supreme Court nominated by- Mr. Truman as Secretary of State in succession to Mr. Stettinius, becomes not only the first member of the Cabinet, but next in succession to the Presidency. He was promoted before the present war from the Senate to a seat on the Supreme Court, and then left this ...

... Abigail Sarclet (MARY MORRIS) starts with horror when Stephen Cass (JOHN MILLS) plays the mysterious and forbidden tune which recalls the sinister and beloved Guy. Dr. Edward Sarclet (ELWYN BROOK-JONES) and Stephen Cass, the young poet on whom he has performed an amazing and miraculously successful grafting operation. Ella Sarclet (ELSPETH MARCH) looks at the mysterious and alien hands which ...

... . The second edition of the Sweeter and Lower revue at the Ambassadors runs and runs and runs. HERMIONE GINGOLD has been given a fresh a very fresh number, Exception to the Rule, Britannia.' Written by Alan Melville, with music by Charles Zwar, this new finale to the first part is introduced to celebrate the second anniversary of a record-breaking revue. PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEXANDER BENDER. ...

... . *T*HE first-class presentation of these two Gilbert and Sullivan operas i 1 by the Ofladium Theatre -prisoners of war of Stalag 383, Germany was given in 1943. They had an orchestra, under the direction of J. H. Rymer, and a chorus a wardrobe master, whose very ingenious productions can be observed in these photographs. In our last issue we gave reproductions of the well-designed and printed ...