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AFTER the BATTLE of DOVER HARBOUR: Pilots Comparing Notes (and Narrow Escapes) After the Biggest Raid of the War

... After the Battle of Dover Harbour Pilots Comparing Notes (and Narrow Escapes) After the Biggest Raid of the War On Monday last Britain experienced her biggest raid of the war when eighty enemy aeroplanes concentrated in an attack on Dover Harbour. The result was disaster for Germany-- the R.A.F. not only beat off the attack but brought down no fewer than seventeen of the enemy at a loss to our ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 287 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TANKS, GUNS, ARMOURED CARS: All These are Now Assisting in the Defence of Britain

... TANKS. GUNS, ARMOURED CARS-- All These are Now Assisting in the Defence of Britain THE HEAVY TANKS OF THE ROYAL TANK REGIMENT GET READY FOR ACTION: As will be seen from these pictures, Britain is in possession of some very fine heavy tanks, despite our losses in Belgium and France. These are of the very highest quality, capable of dealing with anything similar possessed by the enemy. The Tank ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 948 | Page: Page 8, 9, 10 | Tags: Graphic  Maps  Photographs 

THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR BOMBING RAIDS: A Careful Inquiry, Compiled from Official Sources, Into the R.A.F. ..

... THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR BOMBING RAIDS A Careful Inquiry Compiled from Official Sources, Into the R.A.F. Achievements Over Germany By NOEL THOMPSON TWO of the ques tions most fre quently asked me are, How is it that in all the reports of our bombing raids over Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, and Norway we are told of the great damage done, while German bombs usually seem to fall in the sea or ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1921 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Photographs 

ON BOARD a DESTROYER in the NORTH SEA: The Royal Navy Rehearses As It Works

... ON BOARD a DESTROYER I in the NORTH SEA The Royal Navy Rehearses As It Works \Y/E all know the wonderful defensive work of the Royal Navy in keeping the seas of Britain free of the enemy. But at the same time preparations for oflcnsive action are undoubtedly being rehearsed, in readiness for the moment when defence will give way to attack. The pictures reproduced on these pages were taken on ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 419 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WAR-TIME ACTIVITIES in FOUR DIFFERENT SPHERES: Relief Work; Monitor Service; Sheep Herding; Agriculture

... WAR-TIME ACTIVITIES in FOUR DIFFERENT SPHERES Relief Work; Monitor Service; Sheep Herding; Agriculture AMERICAN GIFTS FOR CIVILIAN RELIEF IN BRITAIN A depot for the many American gifts reaching Britain for civilian relief has been established in the home of the Hon. Lady Ward at Dudley House in Park Lane. Many helpers, both American and British, are assisting in the work of packing and ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 463 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WORK OF THE TRADE: What the Submarines Have Done in the War

... THE WORK OF THE TRADE What the Submarines Have Done in the War Described by F. BOWEN THE British Submarine Service-- The Trade as it is still called by its own people-- is very properly a section of the Navy whose activities are most care fully hidden by the censorship, for there are many things in it of which the enemy has very little infor mation and which are constantly giving him a ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2018 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Photographs 

ABOUT SOME GERMAN FIGHTERS: And Particularly About the New Slot Pusher Monoplane

... I ABOUT SOME GERMAN FIGHTERS And Particularly About the J\[ew Slot Pusher Monoplane By CHARLES G. GREY I Founder of The Aeroplane) ODD disconnected bits of information when jumbled together often give one a better mental picture of what is happening than does a connected story, especially when it is a platitudinous, polysyllabic, plantigrade narrative such as has been inflicted hitherto on ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2008 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE QUIETER SIDE OF THE WAR

... ONE OF THE DUNKIRK LIFEBOATS UNDERGOES REPAIR Nineteen lifeboats of the R. N.L.I, were amongst the Little Ships at Dunkirk. Together they brought off some thousands of men from the open beaches. Only one of them, the Hythe boat, was lost but most of the others received damage of some sort. They are now being repaired at their various home stations along the coast. In this picture is seen the ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 701 | Page: Page 30, 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 478 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--NO. XLVIII

... A WAR NEWSLETTER- No. xlviii _ 32-34. St. Bride Street, E.C.4 TO TRY OR NOT TO TRY?-- Much that is false or misinformed is still obtained from German and disseminated by American and other neutral journalists, by our own Intelligence ser vice and by a study of the contemporary presses of the Axis and controlled states (which presses are not quite so colourless and controlled as most people ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2120 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

IN SYRIA TO-DAY: Section of the Near East which Has Been Left in an Uncertain State by the Collapse of France's ..

... INI ^VIP I J\ TO HAV Section of the Near East which Has Been Left in an IN J I IX I r\ I V-/-L/A-\ I Uncertain State by the Collapse of France's Imperial Policy FRANCE has long coveted Syria. Her claim is based on the Latin kingdom established in Syria at the time of the Crusades. Its duration was brief, but French memory is enduring, and this far-distant claim was actually brought forward at ...