WAR NEWS-ITEMS IN PICTURES
... WORK AT A CONTROL CENTRE OF THE ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS Speed is the essence of the whole work of the Royal Observer Corps. The R.O.C use enough telephone wires to go four times round the world, and it is only ...
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An Architect's Home: Edward Maufe and His Wife at Shepherd's Hill
... working on the Royal Academy Committee which is studying problems of reconstruction, besides doing the topical job of design ing posts for the Royal Observer Corps. He is himself an Associate of the R.A., and a Vice-President of the Royal ...
ACTIVITIES in the HOME COUNTRY: Shown in Recent Photographs from Many Parts of England
... past. Danson ark is included in London s Green Belt THE STAND-DOWN CEREMONY OF THE ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS A pic ture taken at the official stand-down of the Royal Observer Corps at North Weald. The ceremony ...
US.A. AND R.A.F. OPERATIONS ROOMS: REAL AND SCREEN
... the radiolocators and the Royal Observer Corps. Radiolocation ivas recently described by Air Chief-Marshal Sir Philip Joubert as Britain's secret weapon against the bomber. And here, for contrast, is a United States Army Air Corps control room as presented ...
Far From the Madding Crowd
... Ralph Lawson and Their Children The Ralph Lawsons ivere married in 1935. Mr. Lawson, who is a liaison officer in the Royal Observer Corps, is the elder son of Sir Henry Lawson, Bt., of Brough Hall, Catterick, York shire. His wife is the eldest daughter ...
The Renewed AIR ATTACKS on LONDON
... information from Royal Observer Corps centres, too, crippled British aircraft are homed, pilots are fished out of the drink and sirens are sounded PLOTTING THE COURSE OF EVERY AIRCRAFT on the Operations Table at a Centre of the Royal ...
PEOPLE OF THE WEEK REVIEWED
... Martin-in-the-Fields. The bride works at the American Embassy. The Royal Observer Corps have done, and are doing, fine icork in guarding us against the approach of hostile aircraft. Here OBSERVERS C. PAYNE and K. A. WHYTE are on duty at their post. This little ...
SIR RICHARD FAIREY GIVES A PARTY: A swordfish from fhe Bosphorus was served to 750 guests at Londonderry House
... Marshal Sir William Coryton and Admiral Lord Fraser, C.-in-C. Portsmouth Air.-Cdre. the Earl of Bandon, Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps, with Air-Cdre. J. Constable Roberts Mr. Whitney Straight, who is managing director of B.O.A.C., with Mr. Richard Fairey ...
FIGHTER COMMAND H.Q. GIVES A SUMMER BALL: THE AMENITIES OF BENTLEY PRIORY WERE ENJOYED BY 300 GUESTS
... (U.S. Marines). Sitting l€ ln8Johnson and Miss Birte Quistgaard Air Commodore R. B. Jordan, who is Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps, and was formerly Air Officer Commanding R.A.F., Gibraltar, takes a turn round the garden with Mrs. Jordan ...
ROOF OVER BRITAIN
... composed of her static defences as well the anti-aircraft batteries, the searchlights, the balloon barrage and the Royal Observer Corps. At the beginning of the war the 44 roof was only a fairly tough framework hot, even so, among the nations it was second ...
RADIOLOCATION VERSUS THE BOMBER
... mechanics and are manned by R.A.F. and W.A.A.F. personnel. At Headquarters the Radiolocator s messages, and those of the Royal Observer Corps, are communicated instantly to R.A.F. Operations Rooms, where they are plotted on large table-maps, as shown in the ...
BATTLE OVER BRITAIN: Air Units of Western Union in a Nine-Day Exercise
... valuable training had been given not only to fighters and guns, but also to the radar warning and reporting teams and the Royal Observer Corps. At the invitation of Mr. Henderson, Secretary of State for Air, M. Jean Moreau, the French Air Minister, paid a three-day ...