... THE U.S.S. INTREPID LISTS AFTER A JAPANESE ATTACK-- ONE OF FOUR SUSTAINED BY THIS AIRCRAFT-CARRIER IN JUST OVER A YEAR: Still smoking, the Intrepid takes on a heavy list to starboard after a Japanese plane had crash-dived into her flight deck on April 16, while operating off Kyushu, in Japanese home waters. This was the fourth direct hit made by the enemy on this carrier in fifteen months of ...

... I n addition to the hazards of war, the American Fleet in the Pacific recently suffered badly from the hazards of Nature. It was announced in mid-July from Admiral Nimitz's Head quarters on Guam that on June 5 a severe typhoon struck the U.S. warships. It hit the Third Fleet off the shores of Okinawa island just as that campaign was entering its final phase. It damaged at least twenty-one ...

... The Three Big Powers are now actually in occupation of the territory of Germany which has been allotted to them. The division was roughly decided upon at Yalta and more accurately specified later, but during the last struggle with the Nazi armies, both the British and American forces advanced much farther than the arranged boundaries. INow that they have arrived at their own areas it is ...

... CYtRPLfn$ CELESTA FINO SHERRY Per I 6/6 Bottle Supplied to the public through the Retail Trade ONLY. IRPlinS K^llEST'D. 1867 HOMING TTRACTION! V„atell* wr. ro n/nittie*4* e;:A THE BEACHES ARE CLEARED! These have been hard years for children. They have missed so much that we once enjoyed. Let us now build for them a land and a life worth having. When the Jap is beaten there will be much to do ...

... 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 ...