Author: VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS Title: The Illustrated London News, 23 December 1944
Description: London, England: 30 January 1943, 1944. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Cover: For Training in Bombing of Enemy Ships: A Replica of a Japanese Battleship, Used as a Target for Practice Precision Bombing by the U.S. Air Forces. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Years of Victory, 1802 - 1812" by Arthur Bryant; The Great World War: Australia and the Pacific War; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: New Problems of Meteoritic Bombs. Pictorial Journals include: Two Sketches From the British Second Army Front in Holland (illus, by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Approaches to Germany: The Active Fronts, West and East (maps); The Western Front: Scenes from British and U.S. Battlefields; U.S. Troops in Fort Driant: The Fall of a Formidable Metz Fortress; The War at Sea: From H.M.S. "Howe" at Suez to Prefabricated Tugs; The Troubles in Athens: Alexander's Arrival - Partisan Prisoners; Our Heavy Sacrifices for the General Liberation of Greece; The Difficult Situation in Greece: Personalities and Events; One of the Gallant Acts for Which Lt. Colonel Henry Robert Bowreman Foote, D.S.O, has Been Decorated With the V.C. (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Sidelights on the Western Front: News From Germany and France; The New "Lungs" of the U'Boat: The Schnorkel Breathing System (illus. by G.H. Davis); Tito's Partisan's, With British Gunners and R.A.F, Score in Yugoslavia; Allied Partisans in Italy: Scenes Taken Behind Enemy Lines; and Trails of War Destruction in Normandy: Famous Churches and Historic Monuments Destroyed. Page 703/704 missing. Page 725/726 loose but present. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; For Training in Bombing of Enemy Ships: A Replica of a Japanese Battleship, Used as a Target for Practice Precision Bombing by the U.S. Air Forces. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Years of Victory, 1802 - 1812" by Arthur Bryant; The Great. Fair .
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