ed aN me Khoa sacl : 3 FREE rh lei Le oy J A 3 4 LAAT FL ~ iW £ 1 resp adtriaid dvadtosainberdnis = ft lan # rel ANT ar v, Yor we" A pi - - OO ae 'PRETTY SOFT' FOR POSTWAR TRAVELERS [Window Drapes Become| Curtains, for Privacy -- aa ee A RRA WR RT RRR aa Folks forced to travel these days in overcrowded trains will find some satisfaction in the postwar romise of comfortable railroading de luxe, pictured above. Photos and sketches show some of the nnovations the Pullman Company has now in experimental service. Photo at upper left shows new type car, with compartments for six passengers. At night, compartments are . converted into sleepers, with berths in three tiers, as shown in diagram, uppper right, Cutaway sketch at lower left shows new "Threedex" commuter coach, with two game rooms at left on middle deck, and stair- ways leading to upper and lower seat decks, Baggage is stored under stairs, Diagram at lower right shows new "day-nite" coach, which provides Pullman comfort at minimum cost, Baggage is removed through chute, without interfering with disembarking passengers. NAA TIC SEA==H Nice Mr. Hitler! He gridironed Germany with some of the world's finest super-highways, and if he thinks the Allied armies aren't going to use them in the race for Berlin, Adolf doesn't know a carburetor from a steering wheel. Map above shows the "auto- bahnen" network, whose heart is an oval running. through the suburbs of Berlin. The roads, 'ostensibly built for "tourist traffic," are actually four-lane, concrete military highways, averaging about 60 feet in width, with no crossroads. They by-pass all large cities, to avoid traffic jams, In the.west, the super-highways con-_ verge in the Rhine-Ruhr heavy industry area into which Allied forces are now fighting, In the east, they run down into Upper Silesia and up through East Prussia--toward which the Russian armies are driving. Photo below map shows a section of the super- highway at Wesseling. "tk ' frees Re PR gpa sop anane nan "THIS CHICKEN DIDN'T MAKE IT These boys didn't miss when the chicken crossed the road and it's a mighty nice change, they'll tell you, from bully and M. and V, Getting their dinner ready are Tprs. Johnny Cunningham, Toronto, and Bill Watson, Oakville. 2 . FS TOWN CRIER CROONS AGAIN MOONLIGHT RENDEZVOUS Silhouetted in the moonlight, these two Coast Guard combat cutters : keep nocturnal rendezvous somewhere off coast of Greenland. Moon; which makés a silvery patch across water, reflects icicles : ' hanging from deck of third cutter. ; TO MEDITERRANEAN Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, above, United States Army de- puty chief of staff since March, 1942, is the new deputy supreme Allied commander in the Mediterra- nean, under Gen, Sir Henry Mait- land Wilson. Succeeding Lt. Gen. - Jacob L. Devers, now in France, AR oe, he will also be commanding gen- eral over U, 8, forces in Mediter- ranean theater. The baby tank pictured above was built by Allied ordnance men from salvaged parts of German, French and American tanks and 9 other vehicles. They found the four-ton baby mighty handy for 0 creeping along bzhind hedges and crawling 2 and out of shell : craters, 3 oe HITLER'S NEW HOME GUARDERS 'EITHER TOO YOUNG OR TOO OLD' RE EY The words of the popular song aptly: describe Hitler's new Volk- : sturm--the home. guard army he's' raising among youngsters and ~ old men to make a last-ditch guerrilla fight when the ANies overrun . the Reich itself. In top photo, teen-age Volksturm recruits are: : instructed in the use of the military' compass. Oldsters, below, : eed many of whom had never handled a gun, are lined up for: target practice. Photos from neutral sources. i a 5 = ans In the little village of Hatrize, tucked away in the Moselle Valley of France, the few remaining townspeople are summoned to the reads to them every day the latest war news received by com- munique, a aloft to safety, as at 'HORSE-COLLAR' LIFESAVER Photos above were taken at a Coast Guard demonstration in the Atlantic off New York of the Navy's newest sea rescue device-- a horse-collar-shaped life preserver dropped from a Sikorsky helicopter, Having spotted the "victim," the aircraft hovers over him, drops the harness, as at left, sare by the ringing of a handbell, - the postmaster , the U-ghaped preserver, which the "victim" slips about him, under village squire by the singing of a han Sven tie J his arms, and a strong webbing loop, in which he sits, to be hauled 0 wer right, of 7 ; pi, IN BRUSSELS J Sept. 5 _ BALEARIG IS, It consists of (upper rirght) ALLIES HAVE LIBERATED. DOZEN EUROPEAN CAPITALS - Sept CORSICA «5 9 SARDINIA --gE--- i a Shecaie iD £1 TED usso-Fi TALLINN Sept 23rd} ROME? x i Junc Ath IN nL ATHENS g : - . (Oct._14th 1B : Map above shows where, in 140 days of fighting--June 4 to Oct 21 ~~ Allied armies have liberated an even dozen European capitals from the Nazis yoke. ' : L}