... Are We Using General de Gaulle as much as We Might, Both for the Good of his Country and of Our Own A Suggestion for the Creation of a General Staff to Deal with Mechanisation Alone By FERDINAND TUOHY THIS is a tank war, says Stalin to Lord Beaverbrook. But it 's also an aeroplane war, queries Lord Beaverbrook of Stalin. It will finish by being an aero-tank war, sums up Stalin. With all this ...

... THE COMING OF THE SEA OTTER The Cargo Vessel of Revolutionary Design and Construction for the Battle of the Atlantic THE drawing by Mr. Lambert, reproduced above, has been made from photographic material in THE SPHERE'S possession. It shows an 80-ft. model of the new U.S. Sea Otter class of cargo-ship, con cerning which the well-known American magazine Time has given the following details: ...

... ITALY UNDERGOES A NEW WARTIME EXPERIENCE: THE DROPPING OF BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS IN CALABRIA itler's unhappy Axis partner has again received a rude shock the toe of her very vulnerable boot has been invaded by British parachute troops dropped from the skies to wreak havoc in a strategically important area. The idea of parachuting troops to earth, which Germany now claims as her patent, ...

... 7> HHHAnHHHlHHI THE COMING OF THE RAINS 'M';: 'P A Problem for the British Command in the Abyssinian Campaign NOT a single traveller who has written about Ethiopia but has been struck by the succession of deep valleys through which wind rivers, large and small, all tortuous, all with sharp falls over pristine rocks, alternating with long stretches of gently-flowing water. These latter are the ...

... Britain's Latest Battleship --A View From A Unique Angle LOOKING DOWN ON H.M.S. KING GEORGE V: A VIEW TAKEN FROM ABOVE BY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS AS SHE STEAMED UP CHESAPEAKE BAY In a previous issue of The Sphere we published photographs of Britain s newest battleship, and last week we presented a double-page drawing by Mr. Montague Dawson. The sensa tional air picture reproduced here was ...

... THE CHIPCHASE LIFE-SAVING RAFT BEING STOWED ABOARD READY FOR INSTANT LAUNCHING WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE RAFT IS LAUNCHED THE CLEVER WAY IN WHICH IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO FORM A BLUFF-BOWED SAILING CRAFT It is the Merchant Navy of Britain which is, at the moment, the object of the Nazis' unrelenting attacks by U-boat, surface-raider and aircraft, and numbers of fine ships have been sent to the ...

... THE NEW GANAL AT GIBRALTAR FIELD-MARSHAL LORD GORT, who has been appointed Governor and Commander- in-Chief at Gibraltar WHERE THE CANAL HAS BEEN BUILT at the edge of the neutral territory between Spain and Gibraltar FOR THE PROTECTION OF GIBRALTAR FROM THE LANDWARD SIDE: The new water trench, which has converted the peninsula of Gibraltar into an island, and which is spanned by only one road ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 119 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Halloo-ing in Libya.-- If Heaven had elected that men should be born dumb, humanity would have gained on the swings of silence more than it lost on the roundabouts of ideas. If men were born dumb, there would be no total wars, fewer private quarrels and a vast increase in dignity and peace in human life. But life would be duller on Olympus. ...

... the opening of the OFFENSIVE IN LIBYA first Pictures from the Desert Battlefield Showing the Opening Stages of the Campaign and the Weather which Accompanied It When the moment came to open the offensive in Libya, quite suddenly the weather took a hand. For two days heavy rains fell, mainly in the coastal strip to the north camps, tank traps and ditches, and whole areas of the desert were ...

... A DECLINE in PANZERS? How German Tank Losses in Russia and Elsewhere May Affect the Course of the War THE most important military news for some time was sent from Moscow the other day, when it was stated that sixteen out of nineteen German Panzer divisions fighting in Russia had suffered appreciable casualties, nine of them experiencing considerable losses in men and materials. Taken in ...

... These Vessels are Doing a Great Amount of Work All Round the Shores of Britain. Two Phases of this are Shown in the Drawings Given on this Page From time to time mention is made in the Press of the work done by the small and fast motor vessels of the Royal Navy. But what is not appreciated by the general public is the amount and the variety of this work. Mr. Dawson here indicates two phases of ...

... ring of Spanish airfields (e.g. at Los Barrios) within a few minutes' bombing distance of Gibraltar Town and Harbour. It is conceivable that Gibraltar might be rendered untenable by ships, its town and dockyards destroyed by land and air bombardment, and its defenders driven to shelter in the snarirms subterranean caverns and nassaaes while maintaining stubborn resistance if overwhelming air ...