... I I w V _ I no II tLuwiu UI iiianvAuvi c nuo guai aniccu UJ mc aci upiallco Ul L II (J r ICC I nirnrill The NAVY Sweeps the MEDITERRANEAN Eighteen Hundred Miles Swept Clear of Enemy Craft, During Recent Operations by the Royal J^lavy AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS ASSIST THE ROYAL NAVY IN ITS HUGE SWEEP OF ITALIAN WATERS: in its 1,800 miles sweep just concluded, Britain's Mediterranean Fleet was assisted ...

... BRITAIN TO^ HAVE pHE great Belgian highway, which is one of the remarkable 1 man-made features of the country, is well described by Captain Owen Tweedy in his By Way of the Sahara, a volume in which he describes his journey in a small car from Rejaf to Algiers. The route goes by way of Aba to Buta which is a great central position for African traffic. The Belgians are justly proud, writes ...

... AIR COMMENTARY BY CHARLES G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane) The JTuisance Bomber must be Beaten in the Workshops Here are some of the Methods Already in Operation to Achieve this MORE and more, week by week, the fact is being driven into the people of this country that this is a man-hour war. And the Germans know it. The nation which can keep up the man-hours worked in its armament ...

... LONDON'S TWO GREAT CATHEDRALS DAMAGED The High Altar at St. Paul's Destroyed and the Henry VII Chapel Damaged by Bombs A WINDOW OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY DAMAGED BY BOMB BLAST: The leaded glass of this window was pock marked from top to bottom by splinters and by blast 'The guardians of London's historic buildings have been having some anxious nights recently for it is evident that the German ...

... The Daylight Sweeps Over France The Pilots Who Have Been Driving Back the Luftwaffe in the Biggest Offensive Yet Undertaken by the R.A.F. A BRITISH FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT, still covered with the fumes of battle, relates to the Intelligence Officer exactly what took place his hands indicate the various attitudes he and the enemy pilot assumed during the combat TWO CANADIAN PILOTS DISCUSS THE RAID ON ...

... THE BATTLE-FRONT ALONG ITS WHOLE LENGTH-- FROM PETSAMO TO THE BLACK SEA, showing the main thrusts and counter-attacks from June 22 to June 30 A special Sphere map Germany's unannounced assault upon Russia began at 4 a.m. on Sunday, June 22, and has continued with varying success and failure during the period under review here, which covers only the first week of fighting. Attacks were made at ...

... A Further Series of Analyses of Vapour Trails by a Sphere Expert We have previously published in The Sphere a series of analytic studies of the fascinating trails traced by fighter aircraft. Here are some further studies, with full explanatory notes IN the picture on the right the trails have the typical cloud-scape background of cirro-stratus at (1) merging to cirrus (2), between heights of ...

... THE drawing above represents an incident which was the basis of a recent Air Ministry bulletin in connection with the Battle of the Atlantic. An Australian-manned Sunderland flying-boat of Coastal Command encountered two German float-planes: immediately the pilot of the Sunderland went low down over the water when the enemy were sighted some miles off: in this position it was, of course, ...

... THE CONVOY ASSEMBLES AND PREPARES TO FORM UP FOR ITS HAZARDOUS JOURNEY This series of pictures was taken aboard one of the destroyers escorting a south-bound convoy through the English Channel into waters infested by enemy U-boats. The little ships and big ships alike braved everything the Germans had, passing through unscathed and without the loss of a single man although within twenty miles ...

... MRS. CHURCHILL IN BEDFORDSHIRE Colworth House, at Sharn- brook, is the Bedfordshire home of Lord and Lady Melchett, which has been used as a rest centre for nurses from bombed areas. Some three hundred have already enjoyed its hospitality, thanks to the two owners and to the British American War Relief Society of New York, which has undertaken to maintain it as a health home for twelve months. ...

... INDIAN SOLDIERS FREED FROM THE HANDS OF THE JAPS: These Sikh warriors were captured at the fall of Singapore they were taken by the Japs to Rabaul and thence to Los Negros, in the Central Pacific, to act as labourers. When Los Negros was recently captured by the Americans, the Sikhs were freed. They numbered in all sixty-nine. Here an American officer is questioning the men as they eat a meal ...

... AMERICAN PRESSES IN ENGLAND ROLL OUT THE MAPS OF LIBERATION. Many of these will be needed eight machines run twenty-four hours a day in this press room of an American Army Topographical Unit, turning them out A BIG NUMBER OF LOCOMOTIVES READY FOR THE CONTINENT. Stored on spur tracks alongside two open main lines, this big supply of new and powerful engines is awaiting employment in the ...