Cassino Italy - An Aerial View of the Monte Cassino Before the Offensive with Smoke Screens Laid by Allied Artillery - full front page showing the aerial photogrphs of Monte Cassino and the surrounding area with many what look like shell hole marks in the foreground. The caption (approx. 130 words) states ..... "The scene of which will give its name a memorable place in military history.....A tortured town! Such was the view of The Times Correspondent on entering Cassino immediately after its fall ....." etc.
The Illustrated London News One hundred Years Ago showing two engravings from 1844: Epsom Races and "Running Rein" Wins the Derby - - - The Burning of Naworth Castle From a Drawing on the Spot.
The Most Rev. and Right Hon. William Temple the Archbishop of Canterbury - full page photograph by Y. Karsh of Ottawa.
General Alexander and His Advance Over the Gustav Line, and the Liri River in Italy:
Waiting on the Roadside: German Prisoners, Panzer and Pratroops Wait for Escorts.
A Light AA Regiment of the Eighth Army in Action with 4•3 Mortars.
A Bren Carrier Approaching a Smoke Screen Whilst Pursuing a Disorganised Enemy Along The River Liri.
Antie Tank Gunners of General Alexander's Armies Preparing to Mobe Off .
Camouflaged with Branches: A Sherman Tank Advancing Over a Stretch of Blown Road to the Liri River Crossing. X2 photographs.
Panoramic View of the Cassino Front: Mount Cairo with Monaster hill; Mount Trochio and the Ruined Town of Eorvaro in the Foreground; An Artillery Smoke Screen in the Foreground.
A Road Near a River Crossing of the Liri: Indian and British Troops in a Trench Alongside the Road.
The Guns in Action Across the Liri River
A German Photograph from Cassino: German Paratroops Watching Allied Movements From Behind a Barricade.
French Alpine Troops Looking Down on Esperia Through Binoculars, ON the Southern Bulwark of the Hitler Line.
Page entitled A Study of the National Hero of the Dutch by C. V. Wedgwood:
William of Orange aged Twenty Two - From a painting After Antinio Moro
William of Orange aged Forty Eight - From a Painting Attrib. to Adrien Key in Mauritshuis at the Hague.
Miss C. V. Wedgwood Author of William the Silent
A Panoramic Map From the Gustav Line to Hitler Lines Showing the Mountain Terrain in the Allied Advance - a full page pictorial relief map "Drawn by Our Special Artist G. H. Davis" illustrating the start off mark of the series of battles which had carried the Allied Armies onward by three main routes, the Sixth Highway, The Liri Valley and The Coast Road or Appian Way. It stretches from the Gulf of Gaeta in the south to Mt Cairo in the north. It also shows aeroplanes of the RAF flying over the Aurungi Mountains. And other ranges. Places mentioned on the map include Mt Dragone - Railway on the Coast Road - Minturno - Castres - Appian Way and Canal - Mt Jajo - Esperia - Mt Ucle - Campodimele - Vallamo - Santa Ambrogio - River Garigliano - Mt Maria - Mt. Appiolo - San Giorgio - River Liri - Pico - Pignataro - Pontecorvo - S. Appollinare - Aquino - Cassino - Pastinelle - Monastery Hill - Piedimonti - and much more
Opening Stages in the Offensive Against the Gustav Line:
Gunner Adamson of Falkirk In the Ruins of San Angelo Which Fell to the Gurkhas Assault - soldier keeping watch with his rifle etc.
Sherman Tanks Outside the Town of San Angelo.
British Troops with a 75mm Gun Mounted on an American M3 Chassis.
Indian Forces Advancing on Pignataro with Bren Gun Carriers..
Port of Gaeta on the Narrow Peninsula.
Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese CinC Eighth Army.
Breaches in the Gustav Line and The Gurkha Capture of San Angelo, and French Capture of Mt. Majo.
Indian Troops Moving Up to Attack San Angelo on the Rapido River.
Gurkhas Proceeding Through the Ruins of San Angelo
Lieutenant General Mark Clark CinC Fifth Army in the Italian Advance.
General Sir harold Alexander Commander in Chief Allied Armies in Italy on the Eighth Army Front.
General Wladislaw Anders CinC 2nd Polish Corps.
General Juin Commanding the French.
Terracina at the Southern End of the Hitler Line on the Appian Way to Rome Which U.S. Troops Reached ....
French Gunners in Action During the Attack on the Gustav Line.
Men, Women and Children Return to their Homes and Fraternise with the Poilus (French soldiers), following the Capture of Aquafondata by General Juin's Army.
General LeeseInspecting Polish Corps.
Goum Women, Wives of Algerian Tribesmen Fighting Under General Juin Follow Their Menfolk.
A Bren Carrier Crossing a Bailey Bridge Over the River Gari Under Enemy Fire
French Infantrymen Passing a Ruined Tank in Castelforte Ruins.
Map - General Alexander's Advance From the Gustav to Hitler Lines, With Arrows Indicating the Position etc; Triangles Indicate Enemy Strongpoints Along the Hitler Line. With an inset of the Anzio Bridgehead.
People in the Public Eye Page:
Mister Arthur Yencken the British Minister in Madrid, Killed in a Plane Crash, and Mrs Yencken.
M. Felix Eboue "an African Negro the First Coloured Man to Become a French Colonial Governor".
The Patriarch of All Russia - info. Patriarch Sergius of Moscow.
Mr Roderick Macdonald the War Correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, and New Chronicle, Killed in Italy
Mr Cyril Bewley of Kemsley Newspapers, Killed In Italy.c.keenlyside.
Major General H .Kreipe the Nazi Commander of Crete.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Foote VC, Royal Tank Regiment.
Paymaster Captain Lewis Ritchie Appointed Press Secretary To His Majesty's Household.
Mr henry Wallace the U.S. Vice President.
Major F. Hoey a Posthumous Award of the VC.
Field Marshal Von Rundstedt Supreme German Commander in the West.
Field Marshal Rommel Subordinat to Von Rundstedt.
Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz Subordinate to Von Rundstedt.
Field Marshal Sperrle Supreme Command of the Luftwaffe in the West.
The Kittyhawk Fighter Bomber Aircraft in Action: The Pilot Releases His Bomb In a Low Level Attack on an Enemy Hillside Gun Position in Italy - a wonderful double page drawn by C. E. Turner; in a sepia style. (small Border tear to this page, slightly affecting the image)
Full page entitled News Items of General Interest:
The Blue Nose Certificate for Crossing the Arctic Lind Designed And Drawn up by the Crew of the Battleship Anson.
A Blue Nose Certificate for Airmen, A Variant on the Navy Certificate.
His Majesty Inspects a Blue Nose Certificate Whilst on His Recent Visit to the Home Fleet.
Aerial Picture Showing the Aftermath of the Attack on Tours Airfield by RAF Bomber Command.
Vesuvius After the Eruption As Seen From 24000 Ft From a S.A.A.F. Mosquito.
The Queen and Princess Elizabeth Meet Airborne Troops in the Camoflage Adopted by a Sniper.
Princess Elizabeth With Her Regiments of the Grenadier Guards.
Page entitled New Types of Aircraft and Another U-Boat Kill:
Survivors Come Alongside the Destroyer Onslaught After Being Sunk by Aircraft from the Carrier Chaser.
Survivors From The U-Boat as They Arrived I Port on Their Way to a Prisoner of War Camp.
A Diagram of the Miles 35 Fighter. Miel
The Miles 35 Fighter Aircraft in Flight.
An Ambulance and an Amphibious Jeep Being Loaded onto the First All Steel Transport Plane the Huge Conestoga.
An Amphibious Jeep Being Loaded onto the Conestoga - view from within the aircraft showing four women in uniform watching the proceedings.
The Massing of the Allied Invasion Forces for the Second Front on a Village Green Anywhere in England: Tanks, Ducks, Tractors - a wonderful double page drawing by War Artist Captain Bryan de Grineau showing many soldiers, ATS girls, children watching, and a woman hanging out her washing on the line, various vehicles, aircraft flying over, and a pub sign The Stag. etc.
Among the Ruins of Sevastopol:
German and Rumanian Prisoners File Out of Sevastopol After The Red Army Recapture.
Monuments and Memorials to Sevastopol's Historic Past Destroyed by the Enemy And Their Metal Content Sent to Germany
Detachment of Red Army Vehicles Advancing Down Lenin Street Past Ruined Houses.
Allied Troops in North Burma:
A High Ranking Chinese Officer Standing In a Jeep, Reviewing American Trained Chinese Troops at a U.S. Army Base in the China Burma India War Zone.
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill of Merril's Marauders the First U.S. Infantry Unit to Fight in Burma: Studying Maps and Writing Messages.
Northern Burma: Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell CinC of U.S. Forces in China Burma and India, Congratulating Some of His Chinese Company Commander on a Successful Sortie Against Jap Outposts.
The Invasion 24 Hour Ration Pack Carried by Each Man in the Coming Invasion Containing: Fuel Tablets - Biscuits - Meat Packet - Chocolate Slabs - Portable Heater - Tea - Gum - Toilet Paper - Oatmeal - Instructions - etc. A Full page with recipe, suggested menu ideas, etc. in a very small box.
STalag Luft III (Sagan) The Scene of the Shooting of Forty Seven Air Force Officers:
A Show Staged by the Prisoners of War.
Sports Day with Prisoners of War Running Races in the Grounds of the Camp.
Member of the RAF Tries Out a Model Steamboat He Made From Scrap Metal.
Prisoners huts and Washing Strung on Lines.
Men Laying the Brick Foundations for a New Hut; Another Corner of the German Camp Where the Tragic Shooting Occurred.
Info. Sagan now Zagan in Poland. The films The Great Escape, and The Wooden Horse were based on the escape from Stalag Luft III by means the construction of three tunnels, codenamed Tom, Dick and Harry.
Royal Observer Corps:
Girls Of the Royal Observer Corps Plotting Aircraft Movements on a Big Map Table in Their Operational Centre.
One of the Girls Operating on the Long Range Board
Preparations, Training and Rehearsals of Glider Borne Infantry and Paratroops - seven drawings by Flight Lieutenant H. W. Hailstone on a double page:
Dropping Supplies by Parachute
Part of the Drying Room at an RAF Depot for Handling and Packing Parachutes.
Gliders Which Landed on an Airfield at a Recent Exercise.
A Glider on the Assembly Lines at an RAF Deopt.
Paratroops Jumping from a Dakota.Loght.
At The RAF Parachute Training School x2 drawings
Info. Harold William Hailstone
Insect Pests of the Garden: The Bean Aphis on Dahlias - - - Damage Caused by the Angleshades Moth - - - Damage Done by Garden Charfer to Rose Flowers. Three photographs by permission of G. Fox Wilson, Entomologist to the Royal Horticultural Society.
Full page of adverts: Austin Motor Company - - Perkins Diesel Engines - - Schweppes Table Waters - - Rotol Ltd.
Full page of adverts: Eno's Fruit Salt - - Hoover Vacuum Cleaner - - Wardonia Razor Blades - etc.
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Our Note Book page by Arthur Bryant
General Alexander's Armies in Italy ant he Gustav Line - caption articles; various.
The Great World War: Success in the First Round by Cyril Falls.
The Kittyhawk Fighter Bomber- caption article
A Study of the National Hero of the Dutch - "William The Silent" by C. V. Wedgwood - An Appreciation by Sir John Squire.
Allied Troops in North Burma. Reive
Announcement that 47 Air Officers had beeen shot after escaping from Stalag Luft III
Girls of the Royal Observer Corps - small article, approx 125 words
Second Front Preparations for an Air Borne Invasion - with mention of Brigadier General Paul L. Williams of Ninth Troop Carrier Command - RAF And Glider Pilot Regiment Crews - Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory - Lieutenant General F. A. M. Browning - RAF Parachute Training School (possibly RAF Ringway).
The World of Science by E. S. Grew.2705
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