The War Told for You in Pictures

whole: the 14 images occupy the majority. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in green. The text is separate and located in the upper centre and beneath each image as a caption, also in green. All set against a white background. image: a series of photographs illustrating different aspects of the Allied war effort, including depictions of military vehicles and military personnel. text: M.50049 - H.3414 - D.5013 - 750 - 15.8.40 THE WAR TOLD FOR YOU IN PICTURES THE EMPIRE'S SONS RALLY TO CALL OF THE MOTHERLAND - MORE TANKS FOR BRITAIN - EGYPT TAKES WINGS - INSIDE A 16-INCH BRITISH NAVAL GUN. Although Britain prefers to fight on the surface, she, too, has submarines. But they attack only enemy warships. 'Mare Nostrum' say the Italians of the Mediterranean, but their efforts so far have not proved that it is their sea. British battleships like these send them scurrying to their harbours. They will go on doing so until every peaceful nation can also say 'Our Sea.' A recent addition to the Fleet Air Arm of the British Navy is the Fairey Albacore, which is a fast biplane and can be used either as a torpedo-carrier or reconnaissance spotter. There is plenty of room in the barrel of a 16-inch British naval gun. The gun, which weighs 106 tons, can accurately hurl a 1-ton shell a distance of 20 miles. Packing the quayside of a British port are more troops from New Zealand. To them Britain is the Motherland, the mother of freedom which they have crossed the world to protect. The rear gunner in his cockpit raises his right thumb, as this aircraft glides into the aerodrome returning from patrol. 'Thumbs up' means that he has shot down yet another German aircraft. With her eyes to the future in which she will undoubtedly claim air superiority, Britain is training increasing numbers of men in engineering and the construction of aircraft. Still more tanks in ever-increasing numbers pour from Britain's factories, for the British Empire's mighty resources are marshalled with one object - to out-arm and out-fight the German terror. Part of a contingent of New Zealand troops just arrived in England. These young fellows soon settled down to rifle practice. Student Officers of the Royal Air Force, from every part of the British Empire, learn to use rifle and bayonet at their training schools in Britain. One of seven German bombers which were shot down during an attempted raid on a British East Coast town. Egypt takes wings. Britain's Air Chief Marshal, Sir Arthur Longmore, accompanied by Air Vice-Marshal Haasan Wahab Pasha, inspects Egyptian airmen. The start of an action patrol. Heading for the coast and Heligoland is a Lockheed Hudson, the American aircraft used by the Royal Air Force. This squadron, consisting of Britons, Canadians, New Zealanders, and Australians, returned with all they wanted to know of the movements of Germany's depleted warships. And still they come. The first men of a new contingent of Australian troops step on to British soil. On the boat behind were thousands more, proving that the British Empire's sons were behind the Motherland's cause to the last man. Picture Sheet No. 13. Issued by Information Office, P.O. Box 384, Salisbury.

Picture Sheet No. 13. Part of a series of posters produced under the titles 'The War in Pictures' and 'The War Told For You in Pictures'. M.50049. H.3414. D.5013. 750.

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