... 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 WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 99 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Allies Have a Turn. --In the ding-dong of war we had in July to date the best of the round. Don't let us lower our guard. There are plenty of hard knocks to come to us, though I believe the K.O. on us has gone out in everybody's betting. Russian results have been throughout obscure. It is impossible with the best will in the world to ...

... THE RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN CARRY ON The Wonderful Repair Work Performed After Air Raids Described and illustrated by Roland Davies EVER since bombing was begun by the enemy on a big scale over Britain, the interruption of our transport system has been one of his objectives. Naturally, the railways have come in for a good deal of attention under this heading; and numerous bomb craters scarring the ...

... An Account of what has been Going on Behind the Veil in this Former Paradise of the Wealthy Since its Abandonment by the Great Majority of its Former British Residents By FERDINAND TUOHY A HARDY RACE! wrote Madame de Stael after seeing some English at Villafranca in 1760. This is the first record of les Anglais in that bright corner of France which they far more than any. others were to ...

... A ROYAL PARTY at the PALACE And Pictures from the United States Spain and Japan On left The King and Queen have just given a historic party at Bucking ham Palace, not the slightest detail of which was allowed to be revealed beforehand as a safeguard against an attempt at air-raid attack by the enemy. As is well known, the Palace has already suffered at the hands of Nazi bombers. At the party ...

... HOT WEATHER WARFARE Conditions in the Libyan Desert Amidst the Heat and the Sand Described by Major C. S. JARVIS OUR troops operating, in Libya are now experiencing the full blaze of the summer heat, which will continue with slight variations in intensity until the middle of September, when, with the approach of autumn, there will be an appreciable cooling off. The temperature in this desert ...

... ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES at SEA-- H. M.S. Tartar's Wartime Steaming Record THE Tyneside shipbuilders and engineers in Messrs. Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson's Yard share with all hands on board H.M. Flotilla Leader Tartar, of the Tribal class, intense pride in the astounding steaming performance of that ship, which claims to be the first to have completed 100,000 miles at sea since the ...