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October 5th - Cover Heading = The War completely and exclusively illustrated

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• Front Cover adverts = No Ersatz! "TripleX is genuine safety glass - - Bulmer's Champagne Cider - - De Reszke cigarettes - - Grant's Scotch Whisky - - Hennessy *** Brandy - - Bolskummel - - "Arethusa Training Ship", please send a gift to help train 1100 poor children to be useful citizens - - Hedges & Butler Wine merchants Est.1667 Ron Bacardi 22/6 bottleRoyal Vat Whisky 16/- bottle, Albion Sherry 7/- bottle - - Car & General Insurance Corporation

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• adverts Inside front cover = Lillet French Aperitif - - Harris Tweed made entirely in the Outer Hebrides - - Number 3 cigarettes, notable numbers series41 St Andrew's Street, Hertford (The Old verger's House)...........................................Frontispiece = FPD Home again! The merchant service carries on: A new Muirhead Bone drawing which depicts the safe return to port of the Anchor Liner SS "Cameronia" , on the bridge is pilot Duncan Cameron

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• Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant and a photo of Mr Churchill and wife visiting docklands after Air Raids.................................. 5 drawings = How Nazi raiders are caught in the toils of our defence, showing the effect of the A.-A. Barrage on raiding nazi bombers, which are forced by our gunfire into vertical banks, overturned, or otherwise submitted to sudden and violent shock

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• double page article 5 photos = "Our Gallant Bombers," which strike deep into Germany and Italy to attack military obhjectives , showing The Handley Page "Hampden", The Armstrong Whitworth "Whitley", The Vickers "Wellington", The Fairey "Battle" and The Bristol "Blenheim"

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• 6 photos = China's stand against Japan: small arms production.......................................... 5 photos = China's stand against Japan: army and air force training

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• double page article 6 photos = Troglodytic London: Tube stations as night air-raid shelters (sleeping in the Underground stations)

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• The War with Nazi Germany by Cyril Falls , (continued on 432) photo 1 = The first flotilla of newly acquired American Destroyers enter British waters on 28th Sept, photo 2 = British sailors hoisting the Union Jack on 3 Amersican destroyers..............................FPD = Map showing Japanese pressure on French Indo-China - A vantage point against the Chinese: A Map illustrating the new menace to Singapore and the Dutch East Indies

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• The War with Nazi Germany by Cyril Falls , (continued from 430) photo 1 = The RAF leave a "visiting card" in Berlin's central thoroughfare, photo 2 = The remains of a Heinkel 'III' raider shot down near a boys home at Chobham in Surrey during a night raid on September 24th........................................People and war events: Air Marshall "Billy" Bishop, VC, in London 14 photos including Princess Helen of Rumania's return to Bucharest with her son King Michael

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• The "Grim and Gay" side of raids : The Nazi air war on civilian Britain 9 x Air Raid aftermath photos.................................. Instruments of Destruction: Types of war bombs in use to-day 7 x detailed drawings by GH Davies , A comparative chart showing the various types of bombs in use at the present time, including incendiary, the high-explosive, the armour piercing, the delayed action, and the oil bomb

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• double page FPD of An incident in the bombing of Berlin: Ghostly shadows cast by a "Wellington" caught in cone of searchlights by Bryan de Grineau , Streaming shadows, which the pilot, as he dived to the attack, first thought to be other machines of his squadron, are reflected all about him in the haze of a cloud.

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• The long arm of Britain: Egypt reinforcements; supply ship bombed 5 x photos..................................... sleeping bunks for air raid shelters , more than a million bunks are being made for air raid shelters 3 x photos - - Evacuees recued by 'plane and warship' additional survivors from the "City of Benares" after drifting in an open boat in the atlantic for 8 days, Miss Mary Cornish, Baron Nagorski and boy evacuees 3 x photos

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• double page article Pictures taken on September 27th in London: "Business as usual" after three weeks of German air attacks 6 x photos

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• Training "Roof Spotters" : British troops leaving China : A captured Italian "Savoia" bomber at Aden 9 x photos....................................... Fighting fire in mid air: sergeant John Hannah VC (born at Paisley, Renfrewshire) , and 'Plane' 6 x photos

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• Book Review - Fifty years of changing social history. "Two Generations." with a preface, and edited by Osbert Sitwell - an appreciation by Sir John Squire 2 x paintings a charming painting of the Sitwell children (c1830 by Octavius Oakley, and, George and Lady Sitwell (1826) by John Partridge .............................................. GLUE FROM BONES: The extraction of a vital war material. 6 x photos (phew) photos by Fox

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• The World of Science - The Fruit Harvest by WP Pycraft, FZS, Author of "Camoulage in nature" "The courtship of animals" " Random gleanings from nature's fields" etc 3 x photos : Chinese lantern fruit (Spain), The Blackberry, The Hawthorn ........................................ FPP advert Schweppes dry ginger ale

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• Books of the Day by Charles E Byles - After Hitler by Axel Heyst - The First total War by John Langdon-Davies - and3 x photos about camouflage................................................... FPA --The Nuffield Group, "A realm within a Kingdom"

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• Adverts = "If you are working 7 days a week you need Sanatogen" , New Coffee flavoured - - Notice for HM Office of Works, from October 7th BUILDING WORK requires consent - - "Chilprufe" underwear best for National Service.................................... Notice from The Ministry of Food, FOOD FACTS No. 10, Soup for Air raids (recipe) Scalloped potatoes, National Milk scheme, Chief protective foods, Turn on your wireless at 8.15 every morning to hear useful hints and recipes - - Greatcoats for Officers from Austin Reed

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• adverts = Burberry RAF equipment - - Two Steeples Quality socks and underwear - - Car Mart, used cars - - Macdonalds tobaccos and Cigarettes for export overseas - - Subscribe to "The Illustrated London news" £3 3s 0d or £3 0s 8d Canada including postage - - Nufix for hair health and grooming.......................................... adverts = 15 minutes of hero worship, have a CHURCHMAN No. 1 cigarette to see you theough it - - Milk of Magnesia tablets 6d & 1/- , - - Grouse Whisky, Treasure from Scotland - - Rendells Products for feminine hygiene - - Waifs & Strays Society, children needing care and protection because of the war and it is a struggle for us to feed and clothe them - - Bailey's Turnstiles - - Chubb Safes - - "Bermaline" bread makes it a perfect food - - Vapex for colds - - How to Export free advice from the The Advertising Service Guild

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• FPC advert = Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky