Refine Search

Newspaper

Sphere, The

Countries

Regions

London, England

Access Type

19

Type

19
More details

The Sphere

THE LAST PHASES at DUNKIRK: Scenes During the Retreat to the Coast; and in the City of Dunkirk Itself

... RETREATED ON TO DUNKIRK DUNKIRK-- THE TOWN A BLAZING LORRY IN A STREET STREWN WITH DEBRIS AFTER AN INTENSIVE GERMAN AIR ATTACK. A FEW MINUTES AFTER THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN A COLUMN OF ALLIED TROOPS MARCHED THIS SpOT ON THEIR WAY TO THE DOCKS DUNKIRK -THE HARBOUR ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 273 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE EPIC OF THE DUNKIRK BEACHES: A Story of Allied Heroism and Desperate Endeavour which will Live Down the Ages

... EPIC OF THE DUNKIRK BEACHES A Story of Allied Heroism and Desperate Endeavour which will Live Down the Ages Above-- AN ACTUAL I ENEMY BOMBING RAID IN PROGRESS As bombs were bursting and Nazi bullets were raining down on the beach at Dunkirk our soldiers ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 348 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NAVY'S PART IN THE GREAT EVACUATION

... all, were loud in their praises of the work of the Royal Navy, who backed in fearlessly to the shelled and bombed moles at Dunkirk. The waiting men swarmed on to the destroyers' decks until they could hold no more. Vessel after vessel would pull out, only ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

DAVIDS and GOLIATHS: Our Small Vessels Are Proving Their Worth Against Heavy Enemy Air Attack

... pebble? The simile is apt and must fit a hundred episodes during the great retreat from Flanders and the evacua tion from Dunkirk, whether it was our light tanks against the German heavy mechanised columns, field artillery against German heavy batteries ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1181 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

UNTIL VICTORY HAS BEEN WON: Great Britain is Firmly and Resolutely Determined to Continue the Struggle

... -ck^ivi nnrw. THE KING DOES NOT FORGET THE MEN WHO HAVE DONE BRAVELY: The part the Guards regiments played in the fighting at Dunkirk is becoming more and more evident. Here the King is decorating Lieut. -Colonel Cazenove, of the Coldstream Guards, with the ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 275 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

PREPARING FOR WAR ON THE HOME FRONT

... rtumn CONVOYS A TYPICAL SCENE ON A BRITISH ROAD It has been stated that, as a result of the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, a quantity of war material had to be left behind In Flanders. Despite this the roads of England seem to be humming with war ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 816 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITAIN CARRIES ON THE STRUGGLE: Some of the Men who now Form the Defensive Bastions of this British Empire of Ours

... Mes- serschmitt and causing the remainder to turn away. Since the invasion of the LowCountries and particularly during the Dunkirk evacuation this officer has displayed qualities of leadership and endurance of a high order Leading Aircraltman K. S. Freeman ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 841 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LAST MEN HOME: The B.E.F. Demolition Squads Return to Britain

... also taken at many other French ports Sfe LANCASHIRE WELL TO THE FORE AGAIN: After their gallant work during the Retreat to Dunkirk, men from Lancashire were also amongst the last to leave France. Here is a group of lads from Manchester: in the centre, without ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 326 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

SHOOTING DOWN THE ENEMY'S AIRCRAFT: With Special Notes on the Germans' Coastal Craft; and on the New British ..

... matters about which official communiques might have told us more in the German use, during the withdrawal of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, of their speed boats, which carry two torpedoes and a pom-pom for use against aircraft. They seem to be much the same thing ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1946 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAR IN THE AIR

... striking last week. No bag seemed too big for the fighter pilots of the R. A. F. who took on clouds of Messerschraitts over the Dunkirk area in their determination to defend to the uttermost their comrades fighting their way out to the sea. At the same time ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 668 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs