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SEPTEMBER IOTH, 194a mm Wm .,#-.;"'. "Ws, §LJiL_: W W i. .i-'r^v1 •**m.i ife^Mlgft^ J ALASKAN WEATHER : A U.S. Navy amphibian Patrol Bomber (Cansos) standing in a snow storm at an Alaskan base. From Northern Alaska the U.S. Navy keeps its eye on the Japs in the Aleutians. War in the Air The Russians Hard Pressed : Jockeying for Position in Egypt More Air Raids in the West Malta's Records 1AST summer the Germans were pressing hard against Moscow -' and Leningrad, and each week Flight wondered whether either of those cities would fall before its cur rent issue reached the hands of its readers. Now Stalingrad is in similar case, and again these notes have to be written in uncertainty of what the morrow will bring forth. But neither Moscow nor Leningrad fell, and that thought encourages us to hope for the <2*f*~' AGGRESSOR'S NOSE : Close-up of thjf business end of a Focke-Wulf Condor best about Stalingrad. Bock is hurl ing against it everything possible by land and air, but he is reported to be particularly strong in the air on the Kotelnikovo front, to the south-west of his main objective. On the Black Sea coast the Germans claim to have taken the port of Anapa, or at least they say that the Rumanians did so. Since the fall of Sevastopol the most important Rus sian naval base on the Black Sea is Novorossiisk, some distance to the east of Anapa. There is no coast road between the two, only a mountain road, and so, if the German claim to Anapa is correct, it does not neces sarily mean that the larger port will likewise be captured. Round Rzhev the Russian counter- offensive has been somewhat slowed down. There the Germans themselves comment on the way in which the Russians are using infantry, armour, artillery and aircraft in combination. The Generals on both sides in Russia are clever at using each arm to help all the others. The Russians, how ever, are still indulging in limited bombing raids on towns in the hands of the Germans, and military targets, especially railways, in Warsaw have been attacked by night without loss to our Allies. It is hoped that this
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