The Illustrated London News - Jan to June 1943

Volume of The Illustrated London News - Jan to June 1943

724 pages - Ex Library with all the usual labels and stamps

Condition - Hard cover has signs of wear and tear with age and use.  Internally pages are clean, there are some small tears on some pages.  Binding tight. For more information and photos please contact us.

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Too much content to list it all but here are some highlights.

News from Home and Abroad
Royal News
Obituaries
Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant
Full page of photos and text - Last pictures of Admiral Darlan before he was assassinated: The Lying-in-State at Algiers
2 x pages of photos and text - The Campaign in Tunisia: Troops at Tebourba
Many pages of photos from across the world especially in the areas of War.
2 x pages of photos and text about the various ships at  Pearl Harbour
Double page drawing of a skeleton view of a Lancaster (plane)
Small portrait photos of: Mr G J Maddick; Miss Helen Gilliland: Miss Faith Cellli: Colonel D Reitz; Mr Waterson; Lieutenant L A Jewell;  Lord Apsley; Captain J Wright; Dr A de O Salazar; General Jordana; Captain G A Singer; 
Double page illustration with text - A mad orgy of upside-down Levitation: The curious adventures of the Crew of a Sunderland Flying Boat over the Bay of Biscay
Books of the Day
Pages of photos and text - The Russian Offensive
Full page of photos - A Bomb Attack on an American Aircraft Carrier
2 x pages of photos and text - With the tropps in New Guinea
Double page drawing - The Boeing B-17E American Flying Fortress
Many adverts
Series of drawings made inside a captured German U-Boat (Submarine)
Full page of photos and text - Nofilia - First Tripolitanian Town to be occupied by the Eighth Army
Double page drawing - skeleton view of a German U-Boat
2 x pages of photos and text - Mount Kilimanjaro
Full page of photos and text - Scenes during the Eighth Army's advance into Tripolitania
Double page drawing - How Flt. Sgt R H Middleton won the V.C. - drawing shows his damaged Stirling plane crashing into the Channel.
Double page drawing - H.M.S. "Onslow" closes with a Pocket Battleship and Heavy Cruiser - Capt. Sherbrooke,  gained the V.C.  for this deed.
The World of Science
Full page photo of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in a Fragonard Setting
Full page of photos - The End of the Papua Campaign: Japan's Army annihilated
Full page photo - Montgomery of Libya inspects his men from a Tank
Full page of photos and text - The "Priest": 8th Army Howitzer which beat the German 88mm Gun
Double page of drawings showing various aspects of the work of the R.A.O.C.
Full page photo of President Roosevelt and Mr Winston Churchill at Casablanca
Photo and text - The Massacre of the innocents: The Burial of Lewisham's Child Victims. Double page of photos and text - Malta's Ordeal
Double page of photos and text - Last Days at Stalingrad: The most Catastrophic defeat inflicted on the German Army since 1918
Full page photo - Joseph Stalin
Double page drawing - The Magnificent Painted Hall of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich
Full page drawing - General The Hon. Sir Harold Alexander
Full page of photos and text - The North African Commanders who carried out Churchill's Orders
Full page of photos and text - Two Famous Russian Cities: Rostov recaptured, Kharkov enveloped
Full page drawing of the skeleton view of The Messerschmitt Me. 210 A1
Full page of photos - Kharkov recaptured by the Russians
Article - The Great War - The Battle of the Atlantic by Cyril Falls
4 page folded drawing and text - One of the huge base depots in Egypt where supplies were stored for the use of the 8th Army during its advance from El Alamein to Tripoli
Full page of photos and text - Guadalcanal, America's New Gibraltar: Scenes
Double page - Washington's 211th Anniversary at Sulgrave Manor - photos and text
2 x pages of photos and text - The Fleet Air Arm in Malta
Full page of photos and text - The new German Mark VI Tank: The Tiger in Tunisia
Double page drawing and text - "Tarzan" Troops: Commandos in Training Cross a swift river by ropes tied to trees to attack the enemy.
Double page of photos and text - How Tanks and Trucks are unshipped, built up, and dispatched to the front lines in North Africa
Full page photo and text - The Flying Fortress - prominent in the sensational Bismarck Sea Battle
Article - The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Cyril Falls
Photots of H.M.S. "Abelia" and H.M.S/. "Rother" (Submarine Chasers)
Double page drawing with text - Doctors and Dentists at work in the Desert Army's Front Lines
2 x pages of photos and text about The Air Transport Auxiliary (AAT). Photos include Second Officer Helen Harrison, of Toronto;  First Officer Helen Richey, of McKeesport;  Mrs Majorie Pinnock
Full page of photos and text about the Training School for Submarine Crews at New London, Connecticut
Full page of photos and text - Helicopters to join in the War on U-Boats (The Vought-Sikorsky)
Double page drawing and text - Three Famous Tanks: The Churchill; The Sherman; and the General Grant.
Double page of photos and article - Chaos after the R.A.F.'s two shattering raids on Essen
2 pags of illustrations and text - How Britain gained supremacy in the Mediterranean against greatly superior forces: some vital episodes.
Photos and text - Close up views of formidable allied "Tank Buster": The 105mm self propelling "Priest" Gun.
Full page of photos and text - Lorient, Germany's much bombed U-Boat base in Brittany
Article - Tunisia and the future by Cyril Falls
Photos and text - With the Allied Armies in Tunisia - scenes from the Battlefronts
Double page drawing and text - A Dawn pursuit of the "Enemy" by Canadian Heavy Tanks on Conveyor Vehicles
Full page - A V.C.'s drawing of the St Nazaire Raid
Photos and text - The Norton Hall Collection of Arms and Armour for the Tower
Pictures from the Jungle Front in Arakan (Burma)
2 x pages of photos and text - The opening stages of the Battle of the Mareth Line - now in British Hands
Full page of photos and text - With a Gurkha Battalion in Tunisia: Indians of the Eighth Army
2 x pages of illustrations and text - Background to a raid on Berlin: The Ground Crews who keep out heavy Bombers in the Air
Full page drawing and text - Field Matshall Smuts
2 pages of photos and text - Aeroplanes which the Royal Air Force flew to Victory in 1918
2 pages of drawings - Heraldic Badges of the Royal Air Force
Full page of photos and text - In the Wadi Zigzau: Sappers blast a path for our Armoured Vehicles
Many pages of photos and text - The Battle of the Mareth Line
Full page of photos and text - The War in New Guinea: A severe defeat at Wau Aerodrome
Pages of photos and text - The New Sandhurst: Tank Officers being trained
Full page photo - Sergeant Albert Dunn, of Sunderland
2 x pages of photos and text - Montgomery the Tactician
Full page of photos and text - A fighting French Corvette avenges a British Destroyer
Full page photo and text - A 17cm German Long Range Field Gun in Tunisia (captured)
Many pages of photos and text - The Allied Offensive in Tunisia
2 x pages of photos and text - Royal Engineers discover a many-chambered huge Cavern in the Rock of Gibraltar
Double page drawing - Inside a British Submarine: A Sectional View of a boat of the "T" Class
Full page of drawings and text - An Englishwoman's experiences in Liebenau Internment
Full page of photos and text - The Junkers 52
Full page of photos and text - The Ubiquitous "Jeep": it has taken to the water now!
Full page of photos and text - The Hawker Typhoon
Double page of drawings and text - Inside a British Submarine on Patrol.
Full page of photos and text - Unconventional Pictures of three famous Generals in Tunisia.
Full page of photos and text - The First launching of Lanf Bombers at Sea: Famous raid on Tokyo
Full page of photos and text - The British Assault on Longstop Hill and Bou Arada Bastions
Full page drawing and text - The World's Fastest Aircraft: Britain's All-Wooden Mosquito
Full page photo and text - General Dwight Eisenhower
Full page photo and text - General Sir Harold Alexander
Full page of photos and text - Bizerta, the powerful Naval Base, which fell to the Allies
Full page picture - Map of Sicily
Double page of photos and text - Allies new "Outsize" Landing Barges seen off the coast of North Africa
Full page of photos and text - Carthage, now a suburb of Tunis
Full page of photos and text - Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral
Full page photo and text - General Con Arnim being escorted into his new quarters - in England
Article - Our Conquest of North Africa
Full page of photos and text - The Tiger Mark VI Tank is not invincible.
Full page of photos and text - German Artillery Weapons captured in Tunisia
Double page of photos and text - R.A.F. smash Europe's Mightiest Dams - Dambuster Raid - Mohne Dam and Eder Dam.  Photo of Guy Gibson and various photos of the Dams
Full page of photos and text - How Combined Operations are organised beforehand by Scale Models
2 x pages of photos and text - A Day in the Life of a Fighter Squadron who shared in the North African Victory
Full page photos and text - Brigadier Wingate makes final plans for his expedition through the Burmese Jungle
Full page of photos and text - Brigadier Wingate and his Chindits
Photos and text - The Great Capitulation in Tunisia
Double page illustration and text - The Destruction of Mohne Dam by Lancasters inflicting irreparable damage to Ruhr War Industries
2 pages of photos and text - R.A.F. Cameras record the Dam Breakers Harvest of Destruction.
Full page illustration - Westphalia - disorganised by the Mohne and Eder Floods
Double page illustration - "Progressive Training" for WAAF Personnel
Double page of photos and text - Secrets of Craftsmen who make material for Precision Lenses
Double page - African Victory Parade through the streets of Tunis
Sardinia - A contour Map showing Airfields and Seaplane Bases
Full page of photos and text - The King and Queen meet allied Airmen who breached the Dams - Flight Lieut. H B Martin, of Sydney, Australia;  Flight Lieut. D J H Maltby of Hastings;  Flight Lieut J V McCarthy of Long Island;  Pilot Officer L. G. Knight of Camberwell, Victoria
Double page of photos and text - Inside a giant Bomber during a Submarine Hunting Patrol
Full page of photos - The French Squadron at Alexandria
Photo - America's travelling Gun, the 6in M12
Full page of photos and text - The Kingdom of Nepal
Full page photo and text - Air Chief-Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, A.O.C.IN.C. Fighter Command
2 x pages of photos and text - The fate of Ferryville, Bizerta
Full page of photos and text - Battlefield scenes of one of the Greatest Victories in History (Tunisia)
2 x pages of photos and text from Mr Churchill's round trip to United States, North Africa and Downing Street
Double page photo and text - Winston Churchill meets with Allied Chiefs in Algiers
Full page illustration with text - A M.G.B. with the P.M.O. speeding in High Seas to Transfer wounded from Armed Trawler to Base
Article and photos - De Gaulle in North Africa
Full page of photos and text - Destruction in Dortmund
Double page illustration with text - The "Bazooka" in action
Full page of photos and text - Britain's Sea-Air Power: "Infomitable" and new Escort Carriers
Full page drawing and text - Lieut-General Sir Bernard C Freyberg, V.C.
2 pages of illustrations and text - The Gallant New Zealanders in action in the North African Campaign
Full page map and text - Pantellaria - First loss of Italian Soil
Article - Allied Bombing Offensive
2 x pages of photos and text - Hitler, Goering and Ribbentrop and their Collaborators
Double page drawing and text - "The Little Ships" and the Gallant Crews who man them. On patrol at night
Full page of photos and text - A Chinese "Stalingrad" Victory; The Battle of the Yangtze
Full page illustration - A U-Boat surges across the Waves
Full page illustration - A U-Boat Crew undersea
Article and photos - The U.S.S. "Oklahoma" Salvaged
Full page article and photos - The Vought-Sikorsky Helicopter
Full page of photos of the King's visit to North Africa
Double page drawing - The Epic Stand of 155th Field Battery at Sidi Nsir
Double page illustration - A "Woolworth Carrier" External and Internal views
Full page photo - Field -Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell
Photos and text - H..M.S. "Biter"