... THE JAP SURRENDER PLANE REACHES THE ISLAND OF IE SHIMA A guard of M.P.s flank the landing field as the delegates fly in to the tiny island on the first stage of their journey to Manila .5* THE WHITE PLANE MARKED WITH GREEN CROSSES is here seen after it had touched down on le Shima The Jap delegates were then transferred to an American transport plane THE JAP DELEGATION ARRIVES IN MANILA Filing ...

... J This is one of the secret air bases ol the Far Eastern war from which the veil of secrecy has at length been lifted, wrote Mr. Edmund Townshend in a recent dispatch from the island to the Daily Telegraph. Here, for the last four years, relays of Robinson Crusoes of the R.A.F. have been living in six- month spells the idyllic life of the beach comber, far from civilisation. Diego Garcia, the ...

... HOW BREAKS IN PLUTO ARE DISCOVERED FROM THE AIR. BY THE USE OF DYES Fluorescein is pumped in with the oil and, should the pipeline under the ocean become fractured, it shows where the break has occurred by colouring the water so that it can readily be spotted by reconnaissance aircraft-- Drawing by E. G. Lambert The way in which accidental breaks in the pipelines of Pluto were pin-pointed by ...

... BLACK WHITE SCOTCH WHISKY 66 An evening nip A nip of Black ...

... WHERE THE GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS WILL BE HOUSED-- THE CELL BLOCK IN THE NUREMBERG PRISON WHICH WILL HOLD THE MORE PROMINENT OF THE NAZIS AS THEY AWAIT TRIAL. At the end is a boarded-up section where important prisoners will be kept The first list of twenty-four major war criminals has been announced it is headed by Goering, Hess and Ribbentrop. Their trial, by a special International Military ...

... At last the Allied Council has been set up in Vienna, and the Military Govern ment of Austria has been arranged. In a similar way to Germany, four zones have been allotted to the four Powers-- the U.S.S.R., the U.S.A., Great Britain and France, with a General Control Council. The four military commissioners are Marshal Koniev for Russia. General Mark Clark for U.S.A., General McCreery for ...

... rrom time to time schemes have been put forward for floating aerodromes, on which trans-ocean air liners could alight and refuel, or repair, as occasion required. Some of them were very elaborate, but none came into being during the war. Experi ments were made, however, on a lesser scale with what might be termed floating airstrips. These were employed in comparatively calm waters and were ...

... ninn UHU When Radar was first directed against enemy aircraft attacking this country, it had to deal with aircraft coming in at what one would describe as the normal angle. Effective contacts and workings would take place at, say, an angle of 45 degrees. Then, later, the enemy took to coming in at a very low angle. This meant an adaptation of equip ment. A system of towers was placed, usually ...

... The place of the official surrender of Japan to the Allied Nations was the sheet of water known as Tokyo Bay It is almost entirely land-locked, entrance to it being obtained through the narrow Uraga Strait. The great Allied fleet of 112 warships, which had previously been sheltering in Saga mi Bay moved into Tokyo Bay to the north lay the long waterfront of the Japanese capital. In the centre ...

... Britain's great southern port is once more presenting the pre-war spectacle of great ships gliding up Southampton Water or setting southwards on their trans-ocean voyages. The Queen Elizabeth, biggest and longest of all existing ships, and the Queen Mary have both been using Southampton as an embarkation port for tens of thousands of American troops. The Queen Mary, with her 81,235 tonnage, is ...

... The idea of a Fleet Train is not new but the principle, as announced by Mr. Churchill in the House of Commons on September 28 1944, was extended to give the British Fleet complete mobility and to enable it to operate continuously in distant waters on a scale that has not been attempted since the advent of steam, a design that differs greatly from existing ideas whereby a fleet returns to shore ...

... Allied Military Government units in Germany have a tough job to do. They are engaged on the reorganisation of local governments and police combing out Nazi officials and supervising those Nazis whom circumstances made it necessary to retain for the time being supplying food and seeing to its production listing and returning to the rightful owners looted works of art reorganisation of public ...