The Illustrated London News, November 23, 1940

Full issue of The Illustrated London News, November 23, 1940

17 pages

Condition is good.  Some wear and tear on front cover where it was removed from a volume.  Internal pages clean, some have old tape repairs.

Contents incl:
Front page photo and text - The King, visiting Coventry Cathedral after it had been bombed.
Small photo - Captain E S Fogarty Fegen, R.N.
Full page of photos and article - "A Glorious Episode" - Mr Churchill's description of the Fleet Air Arm attack on Italy's Capital Ships in Taranto Harbour:  Three crippled, others damaged.
Double page of photos and text - The Glorious Victory of Taranto:  Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, which dealt a crippling blow to Italy's Fleet.
Article - The Surprising Autobiography of a Bridge Expert
Full page of photos and text - Italy's Armistice Day Debacle - 13 Bombers lost in first raid on Britain.
Full page of photos and text - A Royal Armoured Car
1/2 page of photos and articlel - Mr Chamberlain buried at Westminster
2 page article - The Italian Reverses by Cyril Falls
Full page of photos and text - Repercussions of War:  The First Fighter Pilot V.C.;  Harrow School and Famous Theatre (Drury Lane) Bombed
Full page of photos and text - The Nazi raid on Coventry:  The shattered ruin of the Cathedral
Double page of photos and text - Bomb Havoc in a great and ancient City:  Scenes in Coventry, after the Savage Nazi Raid.
Double page illustration and text - H.M. Armed Cruiser "Jervis Bay" facing a Salvo from 11in Guns
Full page of photos and text - The Camera's Eye in Wartime.
Double page of illustrations and text - The First Three Women to gain the Coveted Military Medal for Gallant Conduct (Corporal Elspeth Henderson;  Sergeant Helen Turner;  Sergeant Joan Mortimer (all W.A.A.F."s)
Double page of illustrations and text - Torpedoes from the Air:  The Technique of Torpedo 'Plane Attack, which caused havoc to Italy's Fleet at Taranto.
Article - The "Jervis Bay" of 1805
Full page of photos and text - Personalities of the Week:  Air Marshal W Sholto Douglas;  Mr Eric Gill;  Hassan Sabry Pasha;  Read Admiral A L Lyster;  Air Comm J D'Albiac;  Air Vice Marshal A T harris;  Air Marshal Sir A S Barratt;  Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham;  Air Marshal Phillip Babington;  Air Marshal O T boyd;  Sir Hugh Dowding;  Maj Gen R H Dewing;  Mr J B Joel;  Air Marshal E L Gossage.
Double page illustration and article - A British Hurricane ramming an Italian Raider in Mid-Air
Double page of photos and article - India's Sculptural Treasures and Superb Temple Symbolism.
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