... 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 ...

... British scientists have found a way of in creasing the natural surface tension of water, making it technically possible to build a mid-Atlantic aerodrome or a floating cross- Channel bridge. One practical result of the discovery is the production of man-made islands which can be built to any shape or length required, and which can be easily dismantled, transported and reassembled. Another, ...

... ONE YEAR LATER-- the nijmegen paratroops return to the old BATTLEFIELD TO CELEBRATE THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY A general view, showing General W. Gavin, Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division, laying a wreath in the cemetery. In the background, the white crosses mark the graves of those who died THE LONG TREK HOME TO RUSSIA-- a scene in a Berlin street Liberated Russians, with their ...

... THE INCREASING FURY OF A TROPICAL STORM High tides and wind lash the waterfront at Miami as the hurricane increases in tempo. Much damage was done to the popular Florida resort by this latest visitation of Nature. Every so often the coasts of Southern Florida are swept by tropical hurricanes, which wreak considerable damage and frequently cause loss of life. The latest swept in from the sea on ...

... i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A Hard Peace?-- a hard peace for the Japanese-- that sounds fair enough. A hard peace for the Germans --that, too, is reasonably fair and cer tain; though already Humanity and common sense have clearly indicated that mercy and justice are one and indivisible. A hard peace for one ally at the hands of another or others That does not ring true, and must not come true ...

... ^he Duplex-Drive tank was officially born in 1941. The principle of flotation em ployed was remarkably simple. It consisted of a collapsible canvas screen fitted to the hull of a tank and raised or lowered at will. When erected, the screen completely surrounded that part of the tank above the tracks and, based on the principle of displacement, enabled the tank to float. At the touch of a ...

... Now that the war is over, the mine sweepers are as busy as ever, sweep ing up the mines around Britain to make the fairways safe for peacetime shipping. H.M.S. Foam is nearest to the camera in this picture with H.M.S. Bramble behind in the dis tance is a British escort carrier MINESWEEPERS ARE HARD AT WORK TO MAKE THE SEAS SAFE AGAIN FOR MERCHANT SHIPPING A MIXED FLOTILLA OPERATING FROM THE ...

... VT agasaki, on the island of Kyushu, IN was a city of 250,000 people. It was an important port, a major ship building and repair centre, and the chief supply base for Japan's Manchurian Army. On August 9 the second atomic bomb to fall on Japan was dropped from an American aircraft and the citv ceased to exist. The pictures reproduced on this page were taken, from the ground, by an American ...

... Inner Mongolia presents itself on the map as a long, narrow buffer-State between Siberian Russia and the Chinese provinces of Shansi and Kansu. It has been enjoying, more or less, an autonomous existence for some time under local chieftains who have controlled the caravan highways to Peking and Mukden, with the Soviet-controlled Outer Mongolian regime to the northward, and the authority of the ...

... IF half the forebodings turn out to be but half- true, this is going to be a memorable winter of misery, death and suffering on the Continent. Mr. Lehman says roundly of the European countries on U.N.R.R.A.'s list Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Poland that unless they get more assistance they cannot survive the coming winter months. As U.N.R.R.A. threatens to stop before ...