SINGAPORE President Roosevelt USA State of War Pearl Harbor Attacked GUAM Hong Kong RUSSIAN FACTORY WORKERS Dutch East Indies LIBYA CAMPAIGN Finland FAR EASTERN ARENA MAP Alfred Edward Sephton VC
DATED 1941
Singapore – Indian Troops Arriving on Board a Ship - full front page
President Roosevelt Speaking in the United States Congress on 8 Nov – "I Ask That Congress Declare a State of War" ...
Americas Pacific Bases Now at War:
Oahu Island Part of the Hawaii Group - American Air Corps Planes Lined Up On Hickam Field Guam one of the Marianas Islands Manila Bay on the Philippine Island of Corregidor – 12inch Gun Guarding the Entrance Pearl Harbour – Heavily Attacked by the Japanese in Surprise Offensive shows an aircraft and ships lined up before the attack Wake Island Between Honolulu and Guam – A US Refuelling Base
The Netherlands Indies:
Dutch Destroyers of the Netherlands East Indies Navy, Guarding a Harbour Entrance
Searchlight of the Netherlands Indies Defence Project Reive at Night
Curtiss hawk Fighter Aircraft of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force at Bandoeng Java
Anti Tank Gun in a Village in Dutch East Indies
Anti Aircraft Gun During Night Exercises in the Far East
Hong Kong Harbour
Air Raid Shelters Bored Deep into the Hills at Hong Kong
Torpedo Boats on Guard in the Vicinity of the Island at Hong Kong
British Tanks in Libya full page photograph
The Libya Campaign – Wounded Transferred from a De Havilland Plane to Hospital in Egypt
Map – Tobruk – Bardia – Sollum Area small
Petty Officer A. E. Sephton Posthumously Awarded the VC - info. Alfred Edward Sephton
Th eWorlds Largest Flying Boat – The Mars Built in America by the Glenn Martin Company
American Allies Active in The Atlantic:
Two Patrol Commanders of the US Atlantic Air PatrolWhich Helps to Keep the Lease Lend Line Open Catalina Flying Boat after a Patrol ... An American Flying Boat Patrolling Over the Convoy Taking War Material to Britain
Interior and Crew of a US Navy Patrol Aircraft Patrolling Over Greenland
US Navy Patrol Aircraft Flying Up the coast of Greenland
Full page
Map - The Far Eastern Arena - full page map showing Part of Soviet Russia – Sea of Okhotsk – Novo SIbirsk – Tannu Tuva – Sakhalin – Bering Sea – Sea of japan – Japan – Nagasaki – Calcutta - Dutch East Indies – Singapore – Malaya – Philippines – Solomon Islands – Marianas Islands – Ellice Is. – Christmas Island – Fiji - Midway Island – Tia,pti – Society Island – Samoan - Honolulu – Aleutian Island – Alaska (part) – Canada (part) Vancouver – San Francisco – Los Angeles -etc
Singapore - double page of photographs by G. H. Metcalf - F. Henle - Brandt:
General View of Singapore Looking across The City with Singapore Strait in Background
Chinese Air Raid Warden Looks Out Towards the Victoria Memorial Hall in the Foreground and Fort Canning in th Background
Government House at Singapore the Reisidence of Sir Thomas Shenton Thomas
Singapore Roads
Singapore River with Cluster of native Craft
Finland:
General Von Falkenhorst CinC of the German Army in Norway with Field Marshal Mannerheim CinC Finnish Forces and others.
Map showing the Archangel Vologda Leningrad Railweays etc murmansk-leningrad
The Far North Sector of the Russian Front – Finnish Troops on Miel the Move in Eastern Karelia
Flame Thrower Being Used by a Finnish Detachment to Attack A Soviet Position
Remarkable Photograph from the Russian Front from German Sources – The Road to Kiev Littered with Soviet Equipment Left Behind When Russian forces Left
2nd Eagle Squadron of Spitfires Fly Over the Stars and Stripes Led by Squadron Leader R. Powell
London Pools: Huge Water Tank in the Devastated Area of Fore Street in London
Firemen Filling a Tank in the Basement of a Wrecked House in Bond Street ...
Nine Emercency Circular Tanks at A Site Destroyed by Bombs
Several Basements Make Large Receptacles for an Emergency Supply of Water
Aircraft Without Aircrews – A New Development full page of diagrams of the aircraft showing – Section Showing Principle of Jet Propulsion - - - Combustion Chamber - - - The Plane in flight - - - The Compressor - - - The Plane at Rest
Map Showing Gondar and Surrounding Area in Abyssinia small – Ethiopia
General View of Gondar Showing the Ruins of the Old Portuguese Town and Fort
Grandmother Making guns – Mrs Mary Connors aged 55 Working at the Breech of a 25 Pounder with a younger lady
Russia's Factory Front:
Director of a Clothing Factory in Kutais Receiving Young Girl Students Who Have Applied for Work
A Young Girl Worker Operating a Drilling Machine in Steel Works of Eastern Russia
Mrs Petushkova a Russian War Worker Operating a Lathe Russian Munition Workers Listening a Comrade Read the Latest Bulletin fronm the Front
Sergeant E. Weallens RAOC Captured by the Nazis in Libya, Saw General Rommel, Then Escaped
Near Tobruk – Nazi Armoured Vehicles Taking Parrt in a Night Attack
Four Members of a Wellington Bomber Crew Whose Aeroplane Was Hit by German Flak Over Berlin and Later Came Down in the Sea Admiral Harold R. Stark Known as Betty to the American Fleet
The War by Royston Pike – with mention of Mr Roosevelt and the State of War - - Mr Churchill - - Japanese Attacks in the Pacific - - The Red Army - - Chiang Kai SHek – Hitler and Mussolini – etc –
The Dutch Queens Pledge dated 8 Nov 1941 – Queen Qilhelminas Proclamation Broadcast by Prof P. S. Gerbrandy in the Radio Organge programme
The Battle in Libya & General Auchinleck – full page with ref. to– General Cunningham – MaJOR General Ritchie - British 70th Division – Tobruk Garrison – The RAF – Bardia – etc
Table of RAF Attacks on Germany and Occupied Territory
Can Long Term Bombing Win - Mr Churchill Reports on the RAF
Barbarism and Culture – The Nazi and the Italian
First Round to Japan in the New World War – with ref. to Pearl Harbour – General MacArthur – Position in Luzon – Japanes Battleship Haruna, and Kongo – Invasion of Malaya – Admiral Sir Tom Phillips – The ABCD Front
Germany and Italy declares War on The United States
A Very Heavy Loss- The Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales, and of The Repulse – with words by Mr Churchill in the House of Commons
The War with Finland
Mr Churchill on Russia
Story of Sergeant Weallens Who Was Captured by the Germans in Libya, How he met Rommel and How He Escaped – by F. G. H. Salusbury of the Daily Herald
Crew of a Wellington Bomber Which Crashed – Picked Up in a Dinghy at Ventnor
An Account by Russian Writer Vsevolod Ivanov of His Journey to Kuibyshev from Moscow
Twelve pages (24 sides). It measures 285 x 220 mm (11.25 x 8.5 inches) approx.The four digit number in brackets in title is for my ref only. This magazine is an original and used issue. Not printed on the best of quality paper, but it more than makes up for this in terms of written content with many images. There is age yellowing and spotting/foxing and some marking. The staples are rusty (I have removed them to prevent further damage) leaving witness marks. There are some creases etc to corners. There are a few tears and handling marks to the edges. The photos, sketches etc. vary in size.
PLEASE NOTE: I cannot guarantee that the issue is complete as published - but what I have described above IS present. As far as I can tell there are no pages missing, but if you are looking for something in particular in this issue PLEASE ASK.
The detailed description above signifies the content in my words and not necessarily what is written on the original page. "Info." in the description is my research, although relevant to the accompanying image or article, is not necessarily in the text.
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