The War in Pictures

whole: the 14 images occupy the majority. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in black. The text is separate and placed in the upper centre and beneath each image as a caption, also in black. 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: M50050 - H.3697 - D.7875 -13.1.42 THE WAR IN PICTURES The High Commander for Southern Rhodesia, Mr. Lanigan O'Keefe, chats with Rhodesian pilots at a fighter station in Britain, where they are now serving with the Fighter and Bomber Commands of the Royal Air Force. This German U-boat, which surrendered to an aircraft of the British Coastal Command in Mid-Atlantic, is being made fast in a British port, after being towed there by the Royal Navy. A Polish soldier leaps from a specially constructed tower during a demonstration of 'Paratroop' training in Britain. This picture shows British troops practising aerodrome defence exercises in the Southern Command area. One of the Fleet Air Arm's Fairey Swordfish instructional seaplanes coming ashore after a practice flight. Motor-cycle battalions are playing an important part in rapid attack and defence in Britain. Here are some motor-cyclists during exercises. High Commissioner with Rhodesian Fighter Pilots in Britain - German U-boat Captured by Navy - Soviet Gunners Examine German Howitzer - British Troops on Exercises - Night Fighters in the Desert - Russian Military Mission in Britain. A big gun of the Soviet heavy artillery in a well-chosen gun position on the Russo-German front. Large numbers of American tanks for Britain have arrived in the Middle East. Here is one being unloaded at an Egyptian port. A squadron of British Hurricane night fighters on a desert aerodrome waiting to take off on an operational flight in the Middle East. A gunner of a British Reconnaissance Squadron, which replaces the light cavalry of the past, takes a sight along his Bren gun. Soviet artillerymen examine German howitzers, which were captured in recent fighting on the Russian battlefront. Torpedoes - the deadliest sea weapon and a submarine speciality - being examined on board a British submarine depot ship. An Australian member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in Britain making observations with a theodolite. Britain and Russia co-operate in air defence methods: Members of the Soviet Military Mission are seen examining a shell during a tour of inspection of London's anti-aircraft batteries. Picture Sheet No. 28. Issued by Information Office P.O. Box 384, Salisbury.

Picture Sheet No. 28. Part of a series of posters produced under the titles 'The War in Pictures' and 'The War Told For You in Pictures'. M.50050. H.3697. D.7675.

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