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... ■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 ...
... ROYAL INSPECTION, NAVAt MILITARY AND R.A.F. PERSONALITIES;. AND WEDDING.1 AND ENGAGEMENTS. THE QUEEN recently inspected a detachment of 300 members of the Mechanised Transport Corps. HER MAJESTY is shown with CORPS COMMANDER MRS. PEAKE and behind PRINCESS ELIZABETH. MISS VALERIE HOBSON, the young British screen-star attended the gala premiere of 44 A Bell for Adano at the Odeon, Leicester ...
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... FRIDAY. With an air of solid satisfaction the chef holds up a nice fish for the fast-day. This admirable photograph can be seen at the Ninetieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society at I6y Prince's Gate, which closes on October 20. PHOTOGRAPH .BY DR. JULIAN SMITH, HON. F.K.r.S. ...
... . PHOTOGRAPH MY ECU. BKATON. I he colossal Buddha beside which LADY SEYMOUR was photographed stands outside Chungking, Chinas wartime capital where the wife of the British Ambassador to China has worked so hard, ller husband Sir Horace Seymour, K.C.M.G., was appointed Ambassador in 1942, and ever since then Lady Seymour hus been very active indeed working for Lady Cripps's British United Aid ...
... . Hunting-horns are blown in honour of the tiny new 44 Grand Veneur. In the uniform of a Carabinier, with cocks feathers in hat and a pair of gleaming white gloves. The ceremony in which the Manneken was presented with his hunting kit took plart on a snowy winter's day. Last .July, wearing the uniform of a R.S.M. of the Welsh Guards, the Mannel n tooh the. salute at a parade of Allied ...
... . ti- p z+imm IW* Lachlen (EMRYS JONES), mortally wounded blunt Scot, is very desirous of a kilt and trimmings, so patients each contrive to give him an item. Tommy (JERRY VERNO) nresents a eood leather bell 44 Made in Scotland, it savs it *s real Lachlen tries to leave the hospital, resents being helped with his kit-bag by Yank (JOHN MCLAREN) and shows his dour temper. Lachlc wants to marry ...
... 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 ...