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NEW LIFE FOR THE BLIMP: NOW A CARRIER-BASED WEAPON OF WAR

... WARFARE A blimp descending to the flight-deck of the United States escort ci. :er Sicily during recent naval exercises in the Caribbean in which it was demonstrated that the blimp's range and usefulness could be vastly K- increased. The blimp descended twice ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 189 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

CHINA'S CONTINUING ORDEAL

... nomic development in the Caribbean area. Already the Leeward and the Windward Islands are themselves engaged in closer union, and they have decided to improve inter-island communications by air, sea and radio-telephony. The Caribbean Commission which is an ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 999 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

The DEFENCE of the PANAMA CANAL: An American Writer Describes How the United States Is Now Guarding This Vital ..

... Canal completely. we are working nara ana rapiaiy, dux ine nine element is certainly against us. Our policy of acquiring Caribbean bases began shortly after the war with Spain. Between that time and this, however, very little has been done until the United ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1103 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

AMERICAN WAR MATERIAL REACHES BRITAIN: The Carrier Sicily Brings Jets to Glasgow: The Joe E. Mann Loads at ..

... 36th Fighter Wing. The machines were loaded in the Panama Canal Zone, after taking part iif tuning-up exercises over the Caribbean, and they constitute a formidable access of strength to the American air forces now in Europe. The Sicily is designed to ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

NEWS FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA

... A BIG EARTHQUAKE IN THE CARIBBEAN A diagrammatic sketch of the West Indian Ocean showing tne situation of the Virgin Deep, which is believed to have been the epicentre of the recent disturbance. Owing to the fact that it was under water and not in a populated ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 820 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

THE U.S. FIGHTS THE ATLANTIC U-BOATS

... BEEN THREATENED BY THE U-BOATS The danger-zone has been extended from the Atlantic seaboard of the United States to the Caribbean, and then southwards to the Brazilian coast many hundreds of miles away A NEW MOTHER-SHIP FOR U.S. SUBMARINES An artist's ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1340 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

AMERICA FORMS a SCREEN of ATLANTIC ISLANDS: Part of Her New Strategy of Securing the American Mainland from ..

... used as concentration camps, and not for the first time. And so one shoots abruptly out to the Azores and across to the Caribbean Island fringe, upon which America sets so much store for the defence of Central America and the whole Panama Zone dividing ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1962 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

The SUPERFORTRESS DISASTER: H.M.S. SHEFFIELD IS HOME

... more than 60,000 miles; she has made a circuit of South America, and during her visit to ports in Canada, the U.S.A., the Caribbean and the South American Republics, she has been visited by 170,000 people. In March last year the cruiser arrived at Belize ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 332 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

The LIFE-SAVING RAFTS of the BRITISH MERCHANT SERVICE

... launching from the after-deck of a vessel in E-Boat Alley Four sailors whose ship was the victim of an Axis submarine in the Caribbean leave the two little rafts on which they lived for seven days to board a rescue vessel which later took them in to Philadelphia ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 408 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs