The War 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 placed 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, military personnel and civilian war workers. text: M.50050-H.3697-D.8047-25.3.42. THE WAR IN PICTURES British Women Trained as Armourers - 305 m.p.h. 'Flying Fortress' - Canadian Pilots in Middle East - Britain's New Giant Bomber - Railway Wagons for Russia - Indian Ship Ready to Play its Part - Australian Air Ambulance in Desert. Members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in Britain are now doing the vital work of servicing aircraft and their weapons, and are also being trained as armourers and electricians. A woman armourer is here operating a four-gun turret. The 'Flying Fortress' with its speed of 305 m.p.h. at 25,000ft. and load of 4 tons of armour-piercing bombs, makes it a deadly menace to the enemy. This machine is enabling the R.A.F. to develop a new technique in air attack which may prove decisive. Canadian pilots, who trained under the Empire Air Training Scheme, are now in service with the R.A.F. in the Middle East. Canada has established over 90 schools under the Air Training Scheme - her most vital contribution to the Allies' war effort. The harbours of Britain are protected from enemy attack by boom defences. British sailors are seen preparing to lay out the moorings for a boom. General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Forces, talking to troops in the Western Desert. British women are playing a tremendous part in the war production. Here are girls at work in an aircraft factory, handling airscrews. An American destroyer ploughing her way through the Atlantic on duty patrol. Britain's new giant bomber, the twin-engined Avro-Manchester, is now on service with the Royal Air Force. It carries a heavy bomb-load and has a strong defensive armament. American fighter pilots, members of one of the three American 'Eagle Squadrons,' are now flying and fighting in co-operation with the R.A.F. Fighter Command. British vessels sailing in convoy are now equipped with barrage balloons to protect them from attacks by German dive-bombers. A Fairey 'Fulmar' aircraft takes off from the broad flight-deck of the new British aircraft-carrier, H.M.S. 'Victorious.' Men and women in a Southern Railway works in Britain recently completed in ten weeks 1,000 goods wagons for Russia. Here the last consignment of truck wheels is shown leaving the works on its way to Russia. A vessel built in an Indian shipyard of Indian steel is here seen ready for launching. A British soldier, wounded in the offensive operations in Libya, and in need of an immediate operation, being carried from an air ambulance of the Royal Australian Air Force to a British base hospital. Picture Sheet No. 30 Issued by Information Office P.O. Box 384, Salisbury.

Picture Sheet No. 30. 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.8047.

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