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THE EVACUATION OF GREECE

... Official pictures Phese pictures were taken by a British official ihotographer, who himself .vas one of those taking part n the evacuation and who ravelled with the retreating orces night and day. Most of the marches through Greece were carried out by night, as German planes were machine-gunning and dive-bombing the roads dur ing the day. When the coast was finally reached every available ...

DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES

... ftR. BARNARDO S HOMES I 25,000 meals HS'lSSctnVr PLEASE HELP! HI WILL FEED ONE CHILD I/1 FOR TEN DAYS. 2,913 Barnardo Old Boys are serving in the Forces: 32 have given their lives. Cheques, etc. (crossed), payable Dr. Barnardo's Homes, should be sent to 20 Barnardo House. Stepney Causeway, London, E.I. ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 51 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

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... THE GREEK KING SPEAKS TO HIS PEOPLE: A PICTURE FROM ATHENS BEFORE THE ENTRY OF THE GERMANS AND THE DEPARTURE OF KING AND GOVERNMENT TO THE ISLAND OF CRETE This is one of the last pictures to be taken of King George of Greece in his capital, before the occupation of Athens by the Germans. The King was speaking to his people from a balcony at Army Headquarters his appearance was made only after ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PARACHUTISTS in the GREEK CAMPAIGN And Pictures of Our Own Parachutists in Training in Britain

... PARACHUTISTS In the GREEK CAMPAIGN And Pictures of Our Own Parachutists in Training in Britain BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS ACTUALLY LEAVING THE WHITLEY BOMBERS USED AS TROOP-CARRIERS IN THE TRAINING OF OUR NEWEST FIGHTING ARM On right HOW THE PARA CHUTISTS LEAVE THE AIRCRAFT IN A STRAIGHT LINE-- ONE AFTER THE OTHER On left PARACHUTE TROOPS ENTERING A PLANE TO PRACTISE LANDINGS DURING TRAINING ...

THE BATTLE OF THE PASSES: A Record of the Retreat of the British and Imperial Forces through Greece, and the ..

... THE BATTLE OF THE PASSES A Record of the Retreat of the British and Imperial Forces through Greece, and the Series of Rearguard Actions Fought in the Mountainous Regions Specially Illustrated and Described This narrative begins at the period of the month of April when it became evident that a retirement from the planned line stretching some 150 miles from Monastir to Mount Olympus would have ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2243 | Page: Page 11, 12, 13 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

SUDA BAY, KEY HARBOUR OF CRETE: One of the Best Natural Harbours in the Eastern Mediterranean

... SUDA BAY, KEY HARBOUR OF CRETE One of the Best Natural Harbours in the Eastern Mediterranean By FRANK BOWEN THE present state of affairs in the Near East gives greatly added importance to Suda Bay in the Island of Crete, which is something like the ideal as a temporary naval base in the Eastern Mediterranean although it has not, of course, been given the permanent fittings of a dockyard. While ...

HISTORIC PLA ... OCCUPIED BY THE ENEMY

... HISTORIC P|j ICES OCCUPIED BY THE ENEMY PART OF THE HARBOUR OF THE PIR/EUS, from which some refugee ships left last week. The quays and shipping of the harbour were stated in enemy communiques to have been heavily bombed, but in spite of this, several ships containing returning correspondents, officials and notable people left the Piraeus for southern ports. In peacetime the harbour, which i ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 754 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A PLEASANT TIME FOR THE INTERNEES AT DOUGLAS BUT NOT SUCH A PLEASANT TIME FOR PLYMOUTH

... A PLEASANT TIME FOR THE INTERNEES AT DOUGLAS- -BUT NOT SUCH A PLEASANT TIME FOR PLYMOUTH Known in peacetime to thousands as Holiday Island, the Isle of Man is now a very pleasant place of internment for hundreds of enemy aliens. Along the once popular promenade now stretches barbed wire, cutting off the fine hotels and the homely boarding-houses from the sea inside the barbed-wire area, ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 343 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PARACHUTISTS of the U.S.A.: A New Series of Pictures taken during Actual Operations in Georgia

... PARACHUTISTS of the U.S.A. A New Series of Pictures taken duringActual Operations in Georgia BEFORE TAKING TO THE AIR Parachute troops of the 501st Battalion of the United States Army having their kit thoroughly checked over before being emplaned at Fort Benning. The plane which is to convey them to the point of operations is seen in the background FLYING IN FORMATION, THE THREE TROOP-CARRIERS ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 624 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE SOUTH AFRICANS IN ABYSSINIA: Where They are Waging a Very Nice Little War of Their Own Against the Italians ..

... THE SOUTH AFRICANS IN ABYSSINIA: THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF GOES TO SEE FOR HIMSELF: general sir Archibald wavell visits the south African troops near the byssinian BORDER. ON THE RIGHT IS GENERAL CUNNINGHAM, G.O.C. THE EAST AFRICAN FORCES General Wavell is in supreme command of all the British and Imperial vrces in the Middle East just recently Sir Thomas Blarney, of the Australian Army, was ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 363 | Page: Page 30, 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WAR IN THE AIR: Beating the Night Bombers by Night Fighters

... THE WAR IN THE AIR Beating the Night Bombers by Nignt nghters THE KING WITH THE NIGHT FIGHTERS Talking to a crack pilot, who has already been decorated for his prowess in attacking the enemy night raiders AN ENEMY RAIDER BROUGHT DOWN BY A NIGHT FIGHTER One of the 124 bombers brought down in ten nights over Britain. Pilots of seven nationalities are now engaged on the task of combating the ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 275 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The NEUTRALITY PATROL of the ATLANTIC by the U.S.: How it will Operate, and the American Naval Vessels which ..

... The NEUTRALITY PATROL 0f the ATLANTIC by the U.S. How it will Operate, and the American Naval Vessels which will Take Part NOTES ON THE U.S. PATROL AND CONVOY CONVOYING by U.S. ships first suggested for 300-mile neutrality zone round America, fixed by the Pan- American Congress at outbreak of war, but not taken seriously as the zone had no standing in International Law. Neutrality patrol by U ...