1945 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 30 Jun Archibald Kerr KAMIKAZE PILOTS 1455

A 16 pages (32 sides) Weekly Issue of

The Illustrated London News


This first part of the description features a list of Images i.e. engravings, sketches, drawings etc (these sometimes have descriptive articles but not always). They include:

Admiral Nimitz U.S Pacific Commander, Thanking the Crew of HMS King George V for Their Help in Operations Which Gained the Victory at Okinawa - a full front page showing the man standing on deck and the admiral standing beneath four big guns addressing the men

The Illustrated London New One Hundred years Ago: The Burning of the Ciy of Quebec 1845 - from an old engraving

ILN One Hudnred Years Ago: The Lat Rev. Richard Barham - From an old engraving


Full page entitled - Electioneering o the Air: A Portrait Gallery of Political Spokesmen on the BBC Hustings, With Dates of Their Broadcasts : Anthony Eden - Conservative Mr Brendan Bracken - Conservative Sir Stafford Cripps - Labour Mr Herbert Morrison - LaBOUR Mr Ernest Brown - Liberal National Mr R. A. Butler - Conservative Mr Clement Attlee - Leader of the Labour Party Mr Ernest Bevin - Labour Mr A. V. Alexander - Labour Lord Woolton - National - info. Frederick Marquis Sir John Anderson - National Mr Winston Churchill - Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Pary Sir Archibald Sinclair - Leader of the Liberal Party Sir William Beveridge - Liberal Lord Samuel - Liberal - info. Herbert Louis Samuel Mr Tom Johnston - Labour Mr P. J. Noel-Baker - Labour Lady V. Bonham-Carter - Liberal Miss Ellen Wilkinson - Labour Mr George Tomlinson - Labour Mr James Griffiths - Labour


The General Election: Charts Showing Electoral Changes, and How the Country Has Voted in the Past - a double page showing maps, charts, graphs and diagrams


Full page entitled - TheHustings: Politicians Campaigning for The Votes of the People - The Prime Minister Mr Churchill standing in his Car to Wave to a Cheering Crowe in High Wycombe High Wycombe - Mr Churchill Speaking From the Balcony of the Red Lion hotel Captain Lord Buckhurst The 23 Year Old Conservative Candidate for NE Bethnal Green Mr Herbert Morrison in South East St Pancras with Dr S. W. Jeger Mr Ernest Bevin at Central Wandsworth with Mr A. V. Alexander Lord Beaverbrook Shouting into a Microphone During an Uproar in Battersea Town Hall


The German Battleship Tirpitz sunk by RAF Lancasters at Tromso, Norway: The Propeller Shafts of the German Battleship Tirpits Rising Above the Waters of Tromso After Being Sunk in 1944 Naval Ratings Walking Along the Upturned Hull of Tirpitz Dent in the Battleship's Bottom Caused by a Near Miss From a 12,000 lb Bomb An Upside View Inside the German Battleship - The Interior Showing a Worker Inside A German Naval Rating Climbing Down the Side of the Tirpitz By Means of Holes Cut in the Steel Plate Another View of the Capsized Ship A Close Up View of the German Battleship Shwoing the Badly Damaged Port Propeller Shaft
Floating Dry Docs or ABSD's (Advance Base Sectional Docks) Somewhere in the Pacific: A Floating Dry Dock for The Battle Zone With Two Cargo Ships Receiving Attention A Battle Ship in For Repairs After an Engagement Somewhere in the Pacific


Double page entitled -Japanese Fighter Pilots' Suicide Tactics Against Allied Warships. Desparate Methods Which Have Caused Heavy Enemy Air Losses-: A Japanese Kamikaze Pilot Attempting to Crash on the Dec of a U.S> Warship A Japanese Zero Fighter Manoeuvring for an Attempted Suiceid Crash on a US Warship Photographed Just Before It Plunged into the Sea A Suicide Attempt on a British Aricraft Carrier Where it Hit the Flight Deck and Skidde Into the Sea Exploding Fire Fighters Busy on a British Aircraft Carrier After a Suicide Plance Crashed into the Flight Deck off th eSakashima Islands Fire Fighters at Work After A Suiced Crash on a BritishWarship Firemen in Asbestos Hoods Fighting The Fire from the Ruined Japanese Bomber on the Deck off the Sakashima Islands - plus another close up view The Final Plunge of a Suicide Bomber Being Hit After Trying to Attack a US Aircraft Carrier Twin Engine Japanese Bomber Hit By Anti Aircraft Fire About to Hit the Sea Blazing Suicide Twin Engine Bomber Hit By AA Fire Which Plunged Harmlessly into the Sea Beyond the US Aircraft Carrier Crew of a U.S. Warship Watching a Mass of Flame and Smoke Where a Jap Suicide Place Crashed After Being Shot Down


Small Map of Borneo Part of the Miri Oilfield, Sarawak Before the Plant Was Modernised Part of the Main Distillation Plant at Lutong The Residency, Miri, Sarawak whos -White Rafah- is H.H. Sir Charles Vyner Brooke GCMG Sir Archibald Clark Kerr Ambassador in Moscow - a full page portrait photograph by Y. Karsh of Ottawa, showing him smoking a pipe


Full page entitled -General Eisenhower Home: Tumultuous Welcome in Washington and ew York-: Huge crowd Outside the Treasury Building at Washington Cheers Eisenhower's Procession: The General Seen Saluting From His Jeep The General Addressing Congress The General's V Sign at a Luncheon at Washington The General and General Marshal Wave to The Crowds Giving the Prize Ring Greeting to the Crowds as He Drives Through Washington President Truman Pinning the Distinguished Service Medal To The Generals Chest at the White House; His Wife Looks On New York - Huge Crowds, Flags and A Shower of Ticker Tape as he Drove Along Broadway


A Wild Garden in the City of London on the Site of A Blitz Ruin on the Corner of New Bond Street and Bruton Street RAF Helicopter Taking Off at North Weald St Paul's Cathedral: Painting by Holman Hunt Restored Reive to the It's Place in the Aisle A Cut-away or Sectional Drawing of the Boeing B29 Bomber, Which Is Taking Part inm Blitzing Tokyo etc. in Japan, Showing Interior Detail A Pair of Permanent Prefabricated Concrete Houses Designed by a Contractor Who Helped Build the Invasion Harbour: Mulberry Villas The Waterloo Anniversary at Belgium in Which the Wallons of Belgium Protest Against Miel British Victory over Napoleon: Wreath Laying Ceremony Paris: Anniversary Parade to Celebrate De Gaulle's Fight on Bradcast: A Fly Pastover the Champs Elysees Munich and The First Corpus Christi Procession to be Held Since the Nazis Came to Power: Cardinal Faulhaber in the Procession London: The Household Cavalry Returns to a Peactime Parade Mounted on Their Horses - a scene at a barracks Hilden in Germany: The British Take Over Zone from the Americans and The Union Jack Flying, With British and American Generals in Foreground etc Group Captain Whittle's Prototype Jet Plane at The British Aircraft Exhibition at the Bombed Out Site of John Lewis's on Oxford Street Dry Dock at New York USA: USS Menges a Damaged Destroyer Escort, Resting Alongside USS Holder Before the Stern of the Latter Was Grafted to the Former - info. at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Charlecote Park a Gift to The National Trust - full page showing five photogaphs: Charlecote Park and Gardens near Stratford on Avon Offered to the Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy The Library at Charlecote . Charlecote from the Park The Dining Room The Main Hall Looking Toward the Staircase


Victoria and Albert Museum: Interior Showing The Exhibition of Masterpieces of English Workmanship Painting: Coast Scene, Dragging Nets - By Thomas Gainsborough Full page entitled -Dutch and Flemish Paintings on Exhibition at the Arcade Gallery 28 Old Bond St. Young Man With a Skull - By Frans Hals Interior - by Jacob Ochtervelte Avarice, The Miserly Woman - By Gerard Dou Mountainous Landscape - By Hercules Seghers Two Negroes - By Rembrandt Van Rijn


Double page entitled -Masterpieces of Dutch Painting in the 17thC Now in London. A Loan Exhibition Under the Auspices of the Anglo-Netherlands Society- fourteen photographs in sepia style: The Love Letter - by Johannes Vermeer - Lent by Sir Alfred Beit The Dutch Fleet at Anchor in a Calm - by Willem va de Velde - Lent by Captain Bruce S. Ingram Wood Dunes - by Jacob van Ruisdael - Lent by Percy B. Meyer A Gentleman and a Lady at the Harpsichord - by Gabriel Metsu - Lent by Major General Sir Harold Wernher Still Life - by Jan Jansz van de Velde - Lent by Mrs Eugene Slatter The Tired Traveller - By Jan Steen - Lent by Viscount Bearsted A Dutch Garden Court - by Pieter de Hooh - Lent by Major General Sir harold Wernher An Interior - by Q. Brekelenkam - Lent by Mrs Eugene Slatter An Oriental With a White Turban - by Rembrandt Van Rijn - Lent by the Duke of Devonshire Flower Piece - by Rachel Ruysch - Lent by Mrs Eugene Slatter The Letter Writer - by Gabriel Metsu - Lent by Lilian Lady Beit A House Beneath Trees - by Jan van Der Heyden - Lent by Percy B. Meyer A Kitchen with a Woman at the Pump - by Nicolaes Mael - Lent by Lord Swaythling The Letter Reader - by Gabriel Metsu - Lent By Lilian Lady Beit The one Time Home of George Meredith Presented to the National Trust by Mrs Ralph Wood: Flint cottage, Box Hill, Surrey
Adverts: Sunbeam Talbot Car The Miles Master Aeroplane - Miles Aircraft of Reading Bell Punch Company Automaticket Issuing - cartoon style drawing The British Power Boat Company Ltd - showing one of their boats drawn by R. Clark The National Savings Committee Rover Car Jacob's Water Biscuits Forhans Tootch Paste Milk of Magnesia Tablets Boston The Garter With Grip - cartoon Austin Car Belling Electric Streamline Cooker Thrupp and Maberly Coachcraft 0 A Barouche Coach Jensen 4¼ Litre Straight Eight Car Accles and Pollock Ladder Kodak Film And more


This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include:

Note Book Page by Arthur Bryant The General Election - caption articles to accomapny a page of charts, graphs and diagrams etc The Great World War by Cyril Falls A Veritable Odyssey Through the Centuries. Holbein's Drawings at Windsor Castle by K. T. Parker – An Appreciation by Sir John Squire The Hustings - Japanese Pilots Suicide Tactics - caption article Art by Ernest Bryant New Books by W. R. Calvert Science by E. S. Grew - Killing The Weeds Among the Crops.

This is an original but USED vintage newspaper not a scan and not a later re-print. If there is a particular date you require in regards to this item eg. For a Birthday or anniversary etc please ask. The Illustrated London News was a magazine founded by Herbert Ingram with the first edition of the Illustrated London News appearing on 14 May 1842. The four digit number in brackets in title is for my ref only.

It measures 365 x 260 mm (14.25 x 10.25). There is a little age yellowing. Some of the pages are loose, and have handling marks, blemishes due to their great age - anything more than minor will be mentioned in the main body of the description. The staples are rusty leaving witness marks. The images vary in size. It retains the outer advertising coverPLEASE NOTE: I cannot guarantee that the issue is complete 'as published' - but what I have described above IS present. As far as I can tell there are no pages missing, so if you are looking for something in particular in this issue PLEASE ASK. The process of the page numbering in the ILN run on from previous issues and therefore do not start at number 1. Sometimes the newspaper would have supplements which were numbered specially (eg. roman numerals or such like).

Quotation or speech marks in the text signifies the content in my words and not necessarily what is written on the original page."Info." in the description is my research, although relevant to the accompanying image or article, is not necessarily in the text. This item will be packaged in a Tube.

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