The White Falcon - 17.04.1943, Page 6

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German “secret weapon” shown above is six barrel trench
mortar captured by Russians in Winter offensive.
U.S. soldiers who never had seen a camel before outside a zoo get a
riding dromedaries through the streets of a city in India near which they
Large scale aerial supply and transport of tropps failed to stem Russian tide for the
Germans during Winter fighting. Shown here is wreckage of Junkers transports damaged on
ground by Red Stormovik dive bombers.
Blimps being wheeled oot of hangar at Lakehurst, N.J., base
from which they operate on anti-submarine patrol which has
virtually removed pig-boat menace from coast-wise shipping.
British “secret weapon” in use by Coastal Command planes
combats magnetic mines from the air by device similar to ma-
rine paravane.
New U.S. Air medal to be
awarded for meritorious achieve-
ment in aerial flight was design-
ed by Pvt. Walker Hancock who
received $1,500 prize from the
War Department.
big kick out of
are stationed.
British Coastal Command photo of Hipper class cruiser in
drydock at Brest undergoing repairs after battering by Allied
forces.
Opera house on the island of Malta shows considerable devastation after months of
continual Axis bombings, but tables are now turned and Malta is serving as base for air
attacks on vital Axis installations and convoys to North Africa.
With Rommel beating a hasty retreat toward a junction with
Gen. Von Arnim’s forces near Bizerte and Tunis, Eighth Army
troops use cold steel to rout Axis rear guards.
Jungle fighting calls for the use of all available methods of
transport—even elephants, capable of carrying about 600 pounds.
U.S. troops in India watch as native guides jittery beast along trail.
“Big Inch,” one of several pipelines being constructed to al-
leviate the East Coast oil and tanker bottleneck, cuts across
Pennsylvania hills. I
After the concentrated bombings of the Battle of Britain, occasional Nazi nuisance raids
on London now cause hardly a flutter of excitement. Here a group of Londoners goes casu-
ally about cleaning up broken glass after raid by small group of Nazi planes.
U.S. and French troops parade in Casabl inca demonstrating the solidarity of the two
groups of soldiers now being put to the test i i savage fighting against remnants of once-
proud Nazi and Italian forces hemmed in at Tunis and Bizerte.