(September 4th 1942)
Front cover:
Curtiss Commando, already in mass production in America, is a 25-ton transport plane. This aircraft carries infantry, light artillery and one or more jeeps, its purpose to speed up reinforcements. The Curtiss Commando is the largest twin-engined military plane in the world, and has a wingspan of 108 feet. In the foreground are seen three Jeep cars lined up behind a column of US infantry men waiting to file into the aircraft. The cars are driven into the cabin by means of special ramps.
In this issue:
Along The Battle Fronts (Russia, Egypt & The Far East)
America’s Famous Leathernecks Go Into Action (Two excellent photos of U.S. marines on training exercises, one using an inflatable boat)
United Nations Attack In The South West Pacific (Photos from the Solomon Islands)
Sweeney Todd Of Tobruk Has No Customers Today (The fall of Tobruk)
Hearty Welcome Back To The Aussies In Egypt (Photos of Australian troops recently arrived in Egypt, includes nice photo of an abandoned Italian M13 tank)
The War In The Air
Captured Fighter Gives Away Luftwaffe’s Secrets (Superb photos of an FW 190 in R.A.F. markings)
Malta Is A Great Nuisance To The Axis
Ferry Pilots Marooned In Greenland For 45 Days (An account of an incredible rescue with large photo)
Britons Learn To Fly In Florida’s Sunny Clime
On Channel Coast And Atlantic Shore – Hitler’s Bastions Against Invasion (Double-page of photos of the Atlantic Wall fortifications including German heavy railway guns in action)
Giant Fortress Of Iron & Concrete (Two lovely photos of Batterie Todt in the Pas de Calais)
The War’s Most Vital Conference (An account of the Moscow conference)
This Was The Cost Of The Passage Of The Don (Photos of the destruction in Russia)
Behind The Front With The Red Army (Photo of a Russian armoured train and a compound full of recovered German tanks)
The War At Sea (Includes a photo of H.M.S. Eagle)
Escorts Take Deadly Toll Of Convoy Raiders (Photos of action in the Mediterranean including a British destroyer entering Malta harbour)
Special Service Troops Prepare For “The Day” (Photos of Commandos training)
Women In Uniform: Civilian Work And Pay
“I Was There” (With the R.A.F. I dropped food over Burma)
“I Was There” (At night with my tank in the western desert – includes a lovely photo of a cruiser tank on a transporter)
“I Was There” (We were the R.A.F.’s rearguard in Libya)
plus more
THE WAR ILLUSTRATED
Read about World War II as it happened and as it was portrayed to the British public. This newspaper was published every two weeks from the start of hostilities in 1939 through the war and until 1947.
As its title suggests this publication contains a wealth of archive material including dozens of photographs from the various news agencies in each issue. It does therefore include photographic material covering every theatre of conflict and taken from both the allies and axis lines, although, as one would expect, the text and the accounts of action do have a definite bias towards the allied forces.
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