This first part of the description features a list of images i.e. photos, diagrams, drawings etc (these sometimes have descriptive articles but not always). They include:
Rt. Hon.W. L. Mackenzie King the Prime Minister of Canada - full page (fp)
Two pages Fighting Ships of the Royal Canadian Navy in Action Against U Boat Packs in the Victorious battle of the Atlantic:
Ratings Manoeuvre Depth Charges into Position as Canadian Frigate Fights Her Way Through Heavy Seas - photograph taken by Lieut. G. Milne RCNVR.
A Breaking Sea Boils Over and Under the Stern Depth Charge Rails of a Canadian Frigate on Convoy Duty.
HMCS Prince Robert Canada's First Anti Aircraft Cruiser Attacking a U-Boat: Gunners Watch a Depth Charge Explosion - fp photograph by Lieutenant H. J. Nott RCNVR.
Sir William Beach Thomas.
The Main Site of Olorgasailie Kenya.
Jaw of a Giant Fossil Pig Found at Olorgasailie - etc.
Three Teeth from the Jaws of Giant Fossil Member of the Horse Family Compared with The Biggest Living Zebra.
Part of the Femur of a Giant Fossil Baboon Compared with the Femur of a Large Specimen of The Living Species of Baboon.
Paget titled Allied Paratroops in Nightly Operations Over England showing x4photos:
A Paratrooper Prepares His Equipment in the Glider, Strapping His Kitbag to His Leg.
The Same Paratrooper Clipping his Parachute to the Static Line Ready to Jump From the Glider.
Paratroops, Having Landed, Unpack Their Equipment including a Light-weight Motor Cycle.
An Infantry Section Moving Their Equipment After Landing in Gliders.
The US Daylight 1500 Plane Raid on Berlin: The Centre of the Capital From Tempelhof Airport to the Air Ministry and Unter Den Linden, After Attacks by Three Concentrations of Fortresses and Liberators - aerial photograph.
A Luftwaffe Signals Equipment Depot at St Cyr, Near Versailles Before it was Visited By Lancasters of RAF Bomber Command' .... And The Same Target After Precision Bombing By The Lancasters on the Night of April 10. The Depot Has Been Virtually Obliterated - two aerial photographs
An Example of Precision Daylight Bombing By Bombers of the US Army Air Forces. A Bomb Bursts Squarely on a High Viaduct North of Poix, France in the Path of a Train Seen Bearing Down on the Viaduct from the Left - aerial photograph.
Page showing x9photos showing allied bomber escorts that register kills on enemy aircraft in battle:
The Death of a ME 109G As It Took Off From Its Airfield in Northern France - x3 sequential photographs showing the attack.
Three Stages in the Death of a Twin Engine German Fighter, Destroyed by an American Combat Plane Escorting the US Bombers Seen to the Right x3.
The Last Moments of a ME 110 Hit By A US Fighter - x3.c.keenlyside.
As Seen From the Air: A Battle in Which US Tanks Were Engaged - The Photograph Shows the Last Stand Made By The Japanese on Kwajalein, In the Marshall Islands.
As Seen From The Ground: A Battle in Which M4 Tanks Go Into Action With US Infantrymen During an Exercise.
The Initial Stages of an Invasion: Wireless As The Co-ordinating Link Between Land, Sea and Air Forces - A Symbolical Lay Out of an Amphibious Invasion - The Network of Communications Which Welds the Various Forces into One Co-ordinated Weapon of Assault - a magnificent double page sketch "Drawn by Our War Artist, Captain Bryan De Grineau With The Cooperation of The Royal Corps of Signals". It shows all the positions in the sea and on land during beach landings. This double page is part detached along centre fold.
One of the Largest Vessels in the United States Navy's Fast Growing Landing Craft Fleet: The LSD (Landing Ship Dock) Is an Ocean Going Craft of Some Considerable Size.
The LArgest Mobile Gun Used by the US Army on the Italian Front: A 240mm Howitzer, Shown Being Pulled into Position Across a Rough Piece of Terrain.
A New Type of Nazi Mine; It consists of a Wooden Box, IN Which is Placed a Half Pound Block of TNT.
Vesuvius Changes Her Shape: The Old Summit of the Volcano Crumbled Away During the Recent Eruption and The Crater Took on Another Form.
Yet Another Hitler Mussolini Meeting But This Time There is Only One Dictator. Mussolini Is Reported to Be Seriously Ill - photograph of the two shaking hands next to a train.
General Montgomery's Victory Caravan in London: Driver Woods, Who Drove The General From El Alamein To Tunis, Acts as Guide.
King George V Inspects His Invasion Troops: His Majesty Stops for a Chat With A REME Private Attached to an Armoured Brigade.&
RAF Beaufighters Sink and Cripple Enemy Escort Ships Off Holland - full page showing x4photos:
Coastal Command Beaufighters Torpedo Crashed Home on an Enemy Escort Vessel Attacked Near The Frisian Islands.
The Escort Vessel, One of Four Attacked by a Group of Beaufighters, Gives Out Dense Clouds of Smoke Before Blowing Up and Sinking.
Other Enemy Escort Vessels Almost Disappear From Reive View Under The Furious Cannon Fire of the Attacking Beaufighters.
A Vast Explosion Throws Out Miel Streaks of Fire From an Armed Trawler Which Was Left Enveloped in Smoke - One of the Beaufighters Is Seen on the Right.
Personalities of The Week page:
Mr F. Ernest Jackson ARA.
Mr William Dring ARA.
Colonel Frank Knox - Secretary US Navy died on April 28.
Francis Drake - of Johannesburg Awarded the Stanhope Gold Medal of the Royal Humane Society.
The Hon Sir Derek Keppel died 26April.Loght.
Mr Mackenzie King Canada's premier Greeted on Arrival By Mr Vincent Massey.
The Australian Prime Minister: Mr Curtin Arrives in England.
The Prime Minister of South africa: Field Marshal Smuts Now in Britain.
Mister Peter Fraser New Zealand Premier Greeted by Major Spencer Churchill.
The Allied Supreme Command in Conference: Service Chiefs Who Are Responsible for the Coming Liberation of Europe Photographed at Their Headquarters - Air Chief Marshal Sir ARthur Tedder - General Dwight D. Eisenhower - General Sir Bernard Montgomery - Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley - Adm. Sir B. Ramsay - Air Chief Marshal Sir T. Leigh Mallory - Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith.
Love of Nature and Natural Things. "The Way of a Countryman" by Sir William Beach Thomas - An Appreciation by Sir John Squire.
The Great World War: An Offensive Against Germany by Cyril Falls.
Plus other small caption articles; however some may not be complete as pages are missing. 0605.
These are original loose pages from a vintage newspaper, not scans or later re-prints. The images etc are an excellent research resource. 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.
The pages measure 365 x 260 mm (14.25 x 10.25). There is no front page. There is a little age yellowing. The pages are loose, have wear and small tears to edges. The images vary in size. There are no outer advertising pages. PLEASE NOTE: Although there are pages missing and its not complete 'as published' - what I have described above IS present. If it's not listed, it's not there; however if you wish any confirmation on content please ask. The process of the page numbering in the ILN run on from previous issues and therefore do not start at number 1.
The above description details 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.