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Volume 8 - No. 194 - November 24, 1944

The War at Sea

Nov1944

The War at Sea

Although U-boats are far from being extinct, there being still some hundreds in service, their area of operations has been greatly reduced. There appear to be none left in the Mediterranean, and they

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Dempsey's Men Hurl Enemy Back to the Maas

Nov1944

Dempsey's Men Hurl Enemy Back to the Maas

On a Mopping-up Foray, on Sherman tanks, these smling troops of General Dempsey's British 2nd Army are seen on the thickly-wooded outskirts of Hertogenbosch which had been finally cleared by October

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I Was There! - I Saw the Royal Marines Go In at Walcheren

Nov1944

I Was There! - I Saw the Royal Marines Go In at Walcheren

Westkapelle, keypoint in the Dutch island of Walcheren blocking the entrance to the Scheldt and Antwerp, was in our hands by November 2, 1944. Arthur Oakeshott, Reuters' special correspondent, saw it

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