... ■Ml ■nans i THE NEW BRITISH AIR POLICE IN OCCUPIED GERMANY, and the tvDes of famous aircraft which thev are flying Spitfire, Typhoon and Mosquito- --Drawing by Roland Dovies The British Air Force Occupation authorities in Germany will enforce a complete ban on German civil flying, designing or construction, in accordance with the Allied terms of surrender. Announcing this, Air Chief-Marshal ...

... The great Allied armada was drawn up in three great columns across the broad Sagami Bay whilst preparations for the first seaborne landings on Japanese soil were being made. Forty miles away to the south-west could be seen the towering peak of Fujiyama piercing the thick, white clouds. Before the Fleet was a picturesque, green, hilly shore. Our destroyers stood close in to the attractive ...

... Before the end of the war, Japanese balloons, carrying high-explosive and incendiary bombs, landed in densely wooded areas of British Columbia and the Prairie Provinces. Here is the chandelier which carried the balloon's mechanism and bombs. The balloon itself is constructed of tough papier, 33 ft. in diameter and carrying 1 9,000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas it was designed to operate at a ...

... THE SWIMMING TANKS WHICH OVERRAN THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE AFTER D-DAY A CLOSELY-GUARDED WARTIME SECRET NOW REVEALED BY THE WAR OFFICE. This picture shows one of the D.D. (Duplex Drive) tanks coming ashore after the crossing of the Rhine Planning for the re-entry of Europe began immediately after Dunkirk. Faced with the prospect of a major assault across the Channel, and the rivers which lay ...

... The six special drawings reproduced here have been made from the account by William A. Lawrence, science writer for the New York Times and a Nobel prizewinner. He flew in one of the three Super- Fortresses to Nagasaki and wit nessed the explosion from start to finish. Extracts from his report the first account published are given in the box on the facing page A GIANT BALL OF FIRE RISES, as ...

... Vandalism in the village and church of Imber, in Wiltshire, amounting to wanton and vulgar destruction during the occupation of the village by troops for battle practice, is alleged in letters written by Viscount Long of Wraxall to the Secretary for War, the Ministries of Health and Agriculture, and the Bishop of Salisbury. All the inhabitants of the village to the number of 150 were removed ...

... The Jap surrender of Penang and Singa pore was signed on August 29 on board the British warship Nelson. It was arranged at this meeting that envoys would be sent from Singapore to give information which would help the British East Indies Fleet to make a safe passage down the Malacca Strait for the entry into Singapore and Penang THE ALMOST COMPLETE DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY THE SECOND ATOMIC BOMB ...

... Those Silesians who fled to Czecho slovakia ahead of the advancing Russians during the last days of the war are now being returned to their homes behind the Russian lines, after realising that the German propaganda concerning Russian terrorism was not true. Americans have been instructed to conduct them to the Russian Military Zone, where Red Army men will take over and see them resettled in ...

... NOT one of the hundred and more journalists who crowded into the Salon de l'Horloge at the Quai d'Orsay seventeen years ago to the week had the remotest inkling of the first use to which would be put the international instrument whose signing was the cause of their presence. There was scepticism about the Kellogg Pact's capacity to stop war. It even mounted to ridicule in mv hearing. ...

... aaai pxpenments in handling the Okinawans, which should be useful practice for what will have to be done when we get into Japan, are now being carried out by the American Military Administration, according to a despatch from Mr. Gordon Walker on Okinawa Island. There is a distinct difference between the two civilian populations. Okinawans are not, by and large, as advanced culturally as ...

... SUBMARINES ARE SERVICED AND SUPPLIED AT SEA BY SPECIAL SUBMARINE TENDERS These three American vessels have returned from a war patrol to an Advance Base in the Pacific they have here come alongside a tender for supplies and emergency repairs. The tenders are part of the U.S. Service Force a fleet made up of auxiliaries of every type which service, maintain, repair and supply the combatant ...

... THE TRIAL OF THE TRAITOR, VIDKUN QUISLING, IN OSLO A scene in the courtroom at the opening of the trial. Quisling is seated in the dock on his left is his defence counsel an armed guard is seated behind. Abraham Vidkun Quisling, the man who gave his name to collaborators and traitors all over the world, is on trial In the specially-prepared auditorium of the old Masonic Temple at Oslo. He is ...