... 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. ...

... THE PREMIER SPEAKS TO THE DOCKYARD WORKERS Mr. Winston Churchill recently paid a visit to the North, where his programme included visits to various naval units. With him was Mr. Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's special envoy to this country H THE LORD PROVOST OF GLASGOW The Premier's tour also in cluded a visit to Glasgow, where he inspected the Civic Defence Organisation. Besides Mr. ...

... AN ESCAPE FROM THE WAR The Romance of a Peerage: Lord Nuffield's Pedigree: The Year' s Rainfall Green Peas at Christmas A Coming Centenary VOLUME XIII. COM- PLETE PEERAGE.-- The XUIth volume of the Complete Peerage deserves a special notice. If you have never looked inside this monumental work, begun by Mr. Vicary Gibbs and continued by Mr. Doubleday (with many strong supporters and helpers) ...

... BRAVING ATLANTIC TEMPESTS TO BRING SUPPLIES IN CONVOY TO GREAT BRITAIN, so THAT SHE AND HER ALLIES MAY CONTINUE TO STRIKE THE ENEMY WHEREVER HE IS ENCOUNTERED, AS MR. CHURCHILL RECENTLY DECLARED Bringing war supplies of ail kinds to Great Britain in Convoy in wartime is no easy task at the best of times but when gales of wind and rain, reaching almost hurricane force, descend upon the Convoy ...

... The Giant SUPERSTRUCTURE of a Modern MAN-OF-WAR The Massive Midship Section of the New King George V Class The drawing reproduced here, by Mr. McDowell, is an artist's impression of the towering mass of steel which is the modern counter part in a battleship of the cruiser's and the destroyer's bridge. It has been prepared to show how this huge mass towers up towards the sky, cul minating in ...

... Behind the Battle of Britain The Role of the Home Civil Defence Services Described By K. W. C. SINCLAIR-LOU TIT NEVER was so much owed by so many to so few. The truth of these words strikes home whenever September-October, 1940 comes up in retrospect. The few who gallantly fought off the German air fleets as they came to bomb London did so in an isolation which makes their gallantry all the ...

... The Noble Profession is Still Flourishing, But all its Prominent Exponents are Now Serving with the Armed Forces. Here is a Wartime Review of Boxers, Referees, Promoters and Others in the Fight-Game By CHARLES GRAVES THE manly art of fisticuffs is wisely encouraged by the heads of the three Fighting Services: They know that aggressiveness, quick reactions, stamina, resourcefulness and fitness ...