... THE SCENE ON THE AIRFIELD AT SPEKE, NEAR LIVERPOOL One hundred and forty-five first-line aircraft of the U.S. Eighth and Ninth Air Forces parked in a dispersal area awaiting processing for re-deployment to the U.S. and, eventually, service in the Pacific war zone. None of these aircraft have flown more than 100 combat hours, and they still carry their guns and bomb-racks EACH WHITE DISC ...

... SEWELL OF RADLEY.-- In two-years time Radley College will celebrate its centenary. On August 17, 1847, this now famous public school (which has this year again won the Ladies' Plate, over Eton and all other rowing schools) started its existence, with three boys and great expectations, under that extraordinary pioneer and educational planner Sewell of Exeter. Who was this famous, for ...

... FURTHER DISCOVERIES IN GERMANY And Scenes in Berlin's Thriving Black Market THE TEMPELHOF AIRFIELD IN BERLIN HID A FOCKE-WULF ASSEMBLY PLANT The aperture at the end of the assembly line through which the completed F.W.I 90s emerged ready for testing Berlin's famous Tempelhof airfield before the war one of the finest and best-equipped airfields in Europe became during the war an assembl) plant ...

... LABOUR HOLD THEIR FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER THE GREAT VICTORY AT THE POLLS The scene is Transport House, Westminster H.Q. of the Labour Party. At the head of the table is Mr. Clement Attlee on his right are Professor Laski (Chairman of the Party Executive) and Mr. Greenwood. On his left is Mrs. Attlee MR. ATTLEE SEES THE KING After Mr. Churchill's resignation, Mr. Attlee was called to the ...

... niiiasrnnsisiHEiT^H F m ■ifrrn'B A BRITISH PILOT IS RESCUED AFTER AN ACTION IN THE PACIFIC He is here being helped out of the Walrus which picked him out of the sea and brought him back to the flight-deck of his own aircraft-carrier On right ECLIPSE OF THE SUN JTlaborate arrangements were made |0 observe and photograph the recent eclipse of the sun. The arrangement! included an expedition ...

... mm mi Mfc In i 1 THE AMERICANS GUARD AGAINST TREACHERY ON OKINAWA As the prisoners come in on the island, they are stripped to the waist to uncover any concealed weapons or booby-traps. The Americans have learned from bitter experience of the many tricks played by their captives. From Okinawa, the Japs are sent on to Guam, and then to Hawaii for internment PRISONERS STRIPPED TO THE BREECH ...

... LIVING HARD FOR EIGHTEEN DAYS The R.A.S.C. undertake a 300-mile route-march from Catterick through the Yorkshire hills and dales A mid-day meal by the roadside on the first day. For eighteen days fifty men of the R.A.S.C., mainly nineteen-year-olds, are seeing Yorkshire the hard way. Accompanied by a Lieutenant-Colonel and three junior officers, they began a 300-mile circular route-march, ...

... What is wrong with this picture A happy holiday scene but just look at the mistakes! To start with, the Union Jack is upside down and the deck-chair has no back support. Next, those sand-pies, they couldn't possibly be made with such a small bucket. Strange footprints aren't they for a child's bare feet And isn't the sun playing tricks with the shadows That's not all. What are Caley fortune ...

... THE NEW PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN SECRETARY AT THE BERLIN CONFERENCE, WHERE THEY HAVE TAKEN OVER FROM MR. CHURCHILL AND MR. ANTHONY EDEN On their first appearance at the Conference table, the new British representatives are greeted by President Truman No sooner had the results of the General Election become known than hurried plans had to be completed for the immediate departure of Mr. Attlee ...

... THE EIGHTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD MARSHAL OF FRANCE, PHILIPPE PETAIN, the head of the former Vichy Government, as he faced his accusers a warder sits by his side. The Marshal wore seven stars on the sleeve of his uniform and only one medal-- the Medaille Militaire, highest decoration that can be awarded to a French general officer in time of war. Some reporters say that Petain seemed dull and easily ...

... 1-- THE SCISSORS BRIDGE AT WORK IN THE BURMESE JUNGLE A Sherman tank is confronted with a steep-banked nullah and no bridge. A member of the crew radios back for a bridging tank 2-- THE BRIDGE ARRIVES UNDER ITS OWN POWER at the edge of the nullah, and its crew set in motion the hydraulic arm which throws the ramp across the gap 3-- THE BRIDGE-BUILDING OPERATION IS COMPLETED The Churchill ...

... AMERICAN SOLDIER AND GERMAN GIRL AT THE BERLIN LIDO They sit in a double beach-chair at the Wannsee, fashionable Berlin pleasure-park and bathing centre. He fought his way into the heart of Germany she may have made the munitions which were fired at him. But all is now forgotten, and fraternisation is permitted iiffl-- mmmm mm wafcf -feta** v AN INTIMATE MOMENT ON THE SANDY SHORE OF THE ...