... 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. ...

... : A British airman returns from a daylight raid, and his plane is immediately prepared for another flight whilst the pilot gives details to the Intelligence Officer I ed by veterans who won the Battle of Britain last year, the R.A.F. have now mastered the sky over the Occupied area of Northern France. Last year the air battles were taking place over South-East England, and the ratio of enemy ...

... The Growing Strength of the R.A.F. and the Superiority of British Fighters are now Making Possible the Daylight Bombing of Important Areas of Occupied France and of Coastwise Enemy Shipping OUT from the coast of England a small formation of Blenheim bombers sweeps high towards the coast of France. Around the Blenheims cluster a cloud of fighters-- Hurricanes close in guarding the formation ...

... ilNGAPORE and MALAYA CAN PUT UP A GOOD SHOW LAST February Singapore and Malaya were promised an unceasing flow of men and munitions sufficient to ace the whole territory in a position to resist any possible gression from Japan, who had recently joined the ripartite Pact and had announced her own far-reaching hemes for overlordship in the East. The promise of the nperia Government has been ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 96=^= i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i, Striking the Balance.-- Looking back over the recent weeks of miraculous happenings and obscured speculations, nothing strikes me as more significant than the unanimity revealed by all sections among all the nations, actively or passively on our side, by no means to greet the entry of Russia into the war as an act of God on behalf of our ...

... BRITISH IN ACTION Scaling a battlement, whilst comrades hold off the enemy. (Note map tucked in one man S belt) I Few stories have so gripped the imagination of British people as that of the creation of our own corps of paratroops. Both Russia and Germany preceded our own Army in the creation of such corps but neither has better or more determined men, late though we may be in the adoption of ...

... No Island is Impregnable, said Goring: and Hitler has put this Precept into Practice Whenever he has Needed Ramifications for his War Machine By FERDINAND TUOHY THE war's momentum has for the present moved towards the biggest block of solid land on the surface of the globe. But islands will soon loom again in the picture. They cannot long remain outside a conflict in which the most important ...