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... 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 ...
... Official Pictures of the Fall of Tobruk, January 21, 1941 (and Other Phases of the War on the African Continent) THE SCENE IN THE HARBOUR OF TOBRUK AFTER THE BRITISH FORCES HAD TAKEN POSSESSION ITALIAN NAVAL PRISONERS LEAVING THE WATERFRONT FOR TRANSFERENCE TO PRISONERS-OF-WAR CAMPS Thirty-six hours after the assault on Tobruk was opened, the town and its harbour were in British hands. And ...
... The Guns That Protect Our Shores To-day How the Coastal Protection of Britain has been Organised Described by DONALD COWIE ARTILLERY for coastal protection, as devel oped under high pressure in this country to meet the threat of invasion, is divided roughly into two classes. There are the big guns which cover the sea, and the smaller weapons which cover the foreshore. The first range from ...
... INCENDIARIES-WhatThey Are, and How They Fall INCENDIARY BOMBS, or, as Mr. Morrison prefers to call them, fire-bombs, are becoming a matter of personal interest to most people nowadays. Fire parties are working so well that, before long, the enemy may give up using them on a large scale and resort to a greater proportion of high explosive bombs. Heinkel He iiiK two-motor heavy bombers appear ...
... AFTER A DAYLIGHT FIRE-RAISING RAID ON LONDON Policemen, A.R.P. workers, neighbours and passers-by help to remove furniture from a block of flats threatened by fire after the dropping of incendiary bombs. In every big town 'to-day the citizens are becoming increasingly conscious of the need for prompt action when incendiaries are unloosed upon them. When dealt with promptly, the consequent ...
... BOMB-BLAST and its VAGARIES Some Examples of the Effects of High-Explosive Bombs on Different Types of London Buildings In Presenting the Series of Pictures Reproduced on the Opposite Page, the Editor would Like to Point Out that these have been Selected to Show Different Kinds of Damage Wrought by High-Explosive Bombs on Different Kinds of Building in the London Area. A Study of these will ...
... HOW MANY AEROPLANES HAVE THE GERMANS? More About the Enemy's Actual Strength in the Air The Subject of Seadromes Again A German General on the Royal Air Force By C. G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane WHICH, I wonder, is the more important problem of the moment--getting ready to meet the promised Blitz on England, or defeating the submarines' and sea- raiders' attacks on our shipping? Probably ...
... The CRACKING of the ITALIAN EMPIRE The Two Railway Lines Leading from Italy's East African Capitals, Both of Which are now in the Gravest Jeopardy Owing to the Several British Advances HOW THE ROAD AND RAILWAY ASCEND FROM THE BURNING HEAT OF MASSAWA TO COOL ASMARA The journey from the port to Asmara is well described by Herbert Matthews in his Eye-Witness in Abyssinia: We left early the next ...
... THE NEW 44 RIDDLE OF THE SANDS A special Sphere Section devoted to One Aspect of the Invasion Question the Maze of Mud Flats Screening the Friesian Coast behind which lie the German Harbours of Wilhelmshaven, Bremerhaven, Cuxhavm, and others, which May Even J\[ow be Concealing Some of the Enemy's Plans (}THER ^aircraft bombed an enemy aerodrome on the island of Borkum, where barracks were ...