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PRESSING FORWARD IN SYRIA

... THE NAVY PLAYS A GREAT PART IN THE ADVANCE INTO SYRIA British destroyers bombarding French positions and tanks massing for the attack around Sidon, during the advance of our forces towards Beyrout- -Drawing by VV. McDowell Owing to the geographical situation of Syria, the Royal Navy has been able to lend a very big hand in the advance of our forces towards Beyrout along the coastal road. In ...

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... THE DAYLIGHT ATTACKS OF THE R.A.F. A WONDERFUL IMPRESSION OF THE DEVASTATING RAID ON SHIPPING AT ROTTERDAM ON JULY 16. ACTUALLY TAKEN FROM ONE OF THE PARTICIPATING AIRCRAFT r\n this day, Blenheim aircraft of the Bomber Command, R.A.F., carried out a daring low-level attack upon a large concentration of German shipping in the Rotterdam Docks. As a result of the raid, seventeen ships, of an ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 199 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE BRITISH SURPRISE ATTACK IN THE DESERT

... PREPARING FOR THE ATTACK WHICH FORCED THE GERMANS TO DISCLOSE THEIR REAL STRENGTH AROUND TOBRUK British troops advancing towards Hellfire Pass in the Solium area It was recently reported that British troops in the Western Desert had made a surprise penetration into the enemy's position as far as much-battered Fort Capuzzo. In order to stem the British forward movement German reinforce ments ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The R.A.F.'s DAYLIGHT RAID on ROTTERDAM: Carried Out by Blenheim Aircraft of the Bomber Command, the Raid ..

... The R.A.F.'s DAYLIGHT RAID on ROTTERDAM Carried Out by Blenheim Aircraft of the Bomber Command, the Raid Resulted in the Destruction of 100,000 Tons of German Shipping IN THE STREETS OF ROTTERDAM Dutch civilians gaze up without fear as the Blenheims roar over the housetops in Y formation for their concentrated attack on the nearby docks and German shipping ONLY A FEW HUNDRED FEET ABOVE THE ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 417 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PROBLEM OF GERMANY'S SUPPLY LINES: And How They Will Be Affected by the Present Campaign in Russia: ..

... THE PROBLEM OF GERMANY'S SUPPLY LINES And How They Will Be Affected by the Present Campaign in Russia GERMANY'S VITAL LIFE-LINES, Described by ROBERT FINCH IN his attack upon Russia Hitler has set himself a task which defeated a far greater war lord than he. Will he succeed where Napoleon failed? tor the first time in its career of blood and blitzkrieg the German war machine finds itself ...

SIGNALS: The Methods Employed in the Royal Navy

... SIGNALS- The Methods Employed in the Royal Navy EFFICIENT signalling is regarded as a very major consideration in naval work nowadays. Every single facet of naval warfare demands perfect signalling and communications. So the communica tions branches ol the JNavy are of prime importance and are worked up to a very high pitch of efficiency. They are divided into two sections the wireless side, ...

The BEAUFORT WHICH TORPEDOED a POCKET BATTLESHIP

... The BEAUFORT WHICH TOR PEDOED a POCKET BATTLESHIP phese pictures show the four members of the crew of the Beaufort torpedo-bomber which recently successfully torpedoed a German battleship off the coast of Norway. The pilot, Flight Sergeant R. H. Loveitt, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for the exploit his colleagues (also seen in the pictures reproduced here) include the ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 356 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

OTHER THINGS THAN WAR . . .: The Stately Homes of England: With Notes on Library Wastage, and on Racing Men in ..

... Other Things Than War The Stately Homes of England With Notes on Library ^Wastage, and on Racing Men in Wartime PACKWOOD AND THE NATIONAL TRUST.-- One more stately home of England has gone the way which, we must wish them to go, now that they can no longer be kept up as family homes. Packwood House, Warwickshire, has been handed over to the National Trust by Mr. Baron Ash with its 100 acres ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1707 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

The R.A.F.'s ATTACKS BY DAY AND BY NIGHT: And Two Pictures of Germany's ... of Camouflage at Hamburg

... The R.A.F.'s ATTACKS ;)AY AND BY NIGHT And Two Pictures of Germany's Vn, cheme of Camouflage at Hamburg Phe three pictures reproduced here were all taken by R.A.F. b mbers whilst these were making a heavy attack on Munster, in West halia: they are official Air Ministry photographs which have just been r leased for publication. The public is familiar with night pictures of home- ward-bound ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1160 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Maps  Photographs 

R.A.F. OFFENSIVE--AND THE RESULTS

... R.A.F. Offensive-- And the Results OFF ON A SWEEP A squadron of Spitfires heads for France Residents on the South Coast are now daily watching formations such as the above British fighters heading out across the Channel to clear the skies of the enemy, and to make the way easier for British bombers MEMBERS OF A NIGHT-BOMBER SQUADRON Crews who have just returned from a raid over Germany waiting ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 307 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... FOUR FEROCIOUS-LOOKING NAZI PARACHUTISTS Here is a complete picture of what these shock troops look like when dressed to kill literally I The picture was taken in Germany but fell into British hands during recent operations. It shows in full detail the dress worn and the kit carried when going into action. The shaven poll is typical of many German troops when on active service ONE WAY OF ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 271 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Barclays Ltd

... The WAR and HOMELESS CHILDREN 1 Where do we go now 2000 CHILDREN TAKEN FROM DANGER AREAS INTO 58 SPECIAL WAR NURSERIES 5700 CHILDREN TO FEED AND CLOTHE EVERY DAY WAIFS A STRAYS SOCIETY OLD TOWN HALL KENNINGTON, S.E.11 Bankers ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 44 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs