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June 24, 1944 No. 202 Vol. 16 20 Pages
Cover: On the Western Front
Lifejacketed, smoking the inevitable cigar, Mr. Churchill is photographed with Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, C.I.G.S., on the bridge of the warship in which they crossed to France on June 12 to visit the beachhead. They spent seven hours with the troops.
Articles Inside:
The Week
King In France
Hitler’s “Secret Weapon”
Road To Florence
Air Army’s Triumph
The weapon of airborne intrusion, powerfully wielded at the vital moment behind enemy fortifications as it was in Allied invasion of Normandy, is almost a 100 per cent success.
An air correspondent writes of the triumph of our Air Army, examines its future role.
In picture the Allied gliders cluster round landing point on the Cherbourg peninsula.
(Air Vice Marshal L.N. Hollinghurst)
On The Western Front
Invasion Questions Answered
In once prosperous Normandy Allied troops are making first contact with a people still dulled by the impact of war. “News Chronicle” correspondent S. L Solon answers some “what it’s like in France” questions
Picture shows family welcoming U.S. paratroopers.
Blockade By Little Ships
Protecting supply fleets, hunting e-boots by night, blockading Cherbourg, M.T.B.’s do a man-size job. “Parade” Navy Editor Lambton Burn writes of Britain’s little ships.
Picture by radio shows British motor torpedo boats returning after dawn from an anti-e-boat patrol off Cherbourg.
Jungle Battleground
In Burma troops fight in a fantastic world, here described by Paul Chadburn with photos by Gidal
‘Secret’ Weapons
Eighth Army Captured Them In Italy
(Gen. Sir Oliver Leese, Wurfkorpcr Spreng and Nebelwerfer 41, Sturmakanone 40 (Mark Ill Chassis), Sturmakanone 40 (Mark IV Chassis), Pak 40, Hornet (Mark IV Chassis), Faustpatrone II, Ofenrohr, Semovente (105 mm.), Pak 40 (SF), Sturmakanone 40 (With Skirting), Panzer KW IV, Panther (Mark V Chassis), Mobile Steel Pillbox, Puppchen (Rear View), Puppchen (Front View).)
First Aid For Art Treasures
Forward in France
The Germans in Normandy are fighting the battle on lines dictated by Gen. Montgomery, says ‘Stralegicus’
Consolidation Phase
Communications Cut
The Task of G 5
Thousands of men have been preparing secretly to work in G 5, the new organisation set up by Gen. Eisenhower to restore normal civilian life in Allied countries and to establish military government in enemy territory. Tom Harrisson, co-founder of Mass Observation, here discusses the task of G 5
Job Of G 5
(Lt-Gen. A.E. Grassett, Brig-Gen. J. Holmes)
Upside Down Economy
(Dr. Rudolf Bicanic)
Restoration Of Morale
(Dr. Allport, Col. Joseph Harris, Lt. Alexander Leighton)
Realistic Approach
Michael Mason’s Cable From London
(Mr. Herbert Morrison, Howard Marshall, Marshal Yarrow)
Rhythm On Ice
(Vera Hruba, Megan Taylor, Phil Taylor, John Carroll, Ellen Drew, Richard Denning and Jerry Colonna, Vera and Lois Dworshak)
Holidays Together
Home News
Bedford
(Bob Wyatt)
Manchester
(Commando George Cook, Norman Parker, Eric Gregory)
Ipswich
(Cadet E. Earwaker, P.C. Frank Earwaker, Mr. J.T. Hill, Mr. Charles Whitfield King)
Blackburn
(Mrs. R.A. Yerburgh, Pte. W.G. Farrer-Baynes, F.O. William N. Whalley,
Scotland
(Sir Henry Keith, A.N. Keith, Provost Angus Macfariane, Lord Portal, Angus Roderick Macdonald)
Reading
(Maj-Gen. Lord Mottistone, Alderman A. Lovell, Pat Donoghue, Michael Beary, Gordon Richards, Capt. R.H. Laugham, Mr. C. S. Johnson, Boxer Joe Louis)
Blackpool
(Councillor J. B. Singleton, Dave Morris, Duggie Wakefield and Albert Burden)
Doncaster
(Alderman E. Wilburn, Mr. George Mason)
Merseyside
(Rev. Clifford Arthur Martin, Councillor H.N. Bewley, Maj. J. Becke, Chief Constable, Prof. C. H. Reilly, Sir Giles Scott)
Northern Ireland
(Sir Basil Brooke, District Inspector Michael Murphy, Mr. Robert J. Clyde, Archie Heggarty)
South Africa
(Dr. H.J. Van Der Bijl, Food Controller Mr. E.R. Keegan, Lord Harlech)
By Jan Marais
New Zealand
India
(Dr. W. Barns)
“A.P.O. England” Delivers Letters To The Men Fighting On The French Beachheads
American Chronicle
(Paul V. McNutt, Actress Helen Hayes, Daniel P. Woolley)
“Parade” Credits
Cover, 3, 4: O.W.I.; 5: British Official; 6, 7: Gidal-“Parade”; 8, 9: Zola-“Parade”; 14: “The Tatler and Bystander”; 15: Republic; 16: Sgt. Clews, A.F.P.U.; 17: British Council; 18, 19: British Official; 20: Paramount.
Pin-up: Ruth Hussey
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