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A Representation of PANZER WARFARE OF TO-DAY

... The First Attempt by a Sphere Artist to Depict a Tank Battle on the Russian Front, and the Methods of Attack and Defence, with Aircraft Co-operating on Both Sides IN scores of official communiques from both sides describing the fighting on the Eastern front, we have been told of the fierce battles which have taken place in such and such an area, and how mechanised assaults on certain ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 850 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

BOMBERS of BERLIN: The New Avro Manchesters

... BOMBERS of BERLIN The New Avro Manchesters LONDON PRIDE is one of the new Manchesters which took part in a recent raid on Berlin. It had jockeyed for position above its target in central Berlin-- the General Post Office. Before releasing its load it was held for three or four minutes by a cone of about fifty searchlights. In the officer s own words We were being peppered with flak and had ...

OTHER THINGS THAN WAR...: Calls From, and To, the Past, Some Famous Couples and Some Clergymen Correspondents

... Other Things Than War Calls From, and To, the Past Some Famous Couples and Some Clergymen Correspondents THE CALL FROM THE PAST.-- I had a letter the other day from a lady whose surname seemed familiar. She had been reading a book of mine recently published. My name, it appears, sounded familiar in her ears. She wrote to ask if I were her dead brother s friend of that name. She had been ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1899 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LATEST PICTURES FROM RUSSIA

... Safe? THE R.A.F. WING IN RUSSIA A Scots pilot indulges in a Scottish pastime Tossing the Caber (in this case a Russian fir) WOMEN OF LENINGRAD collecting warm clothing for the men of the Red Army on the northern sector of the front DEFENDING MOSCOW AGAINST AIR RAIDS. The gun crew of this Red Army anti-aircraft battery has helped to repel Germar air raids on the Russian capital it has already ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 200 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FARM AND VILLAGE LIFE IN RUSSIÁ TO-DAY

... FARM AND VILLAGE LIFE IN RUSSIA TO-DAY HOW THE RICH HARVESTS OF THE UKRAINE WERE GATHERED IN whilst air battles were actually in progress overhead- --Drawing by Walker During the earlier stages of the campaign in the Ukraine, it was essential to gather in the rich j harvests before the enemy could reach them. The Soviet peasantry on old-time farms and on Collective farms alike set about their ...

FROM THE WESTERN DESERT BATTLEFIELD

... from the western desert battlefield PUBLIC-HOUSE SIGNS IN THE DESERT FOR THE THIRSTY I Recenl|, lorrp dr,.-r- ,ion, nld, in the arid desert have experienced a great surprise. This is the appearance of pub signs, denoting spots where refreshments and real liquor may be obtained This one, being patronised by South African troops, is ironically named the Noah's Ark in one of the most waterless ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FREE FRENCH MOVEMENT WITHIN THE FRENCH EMPIRE

... An Analysis of the De Gaulle Movement and the Progress it has Already Achieved By DOUGLAS GLEN THE truth of the old adage, Nothing succeeds like suc cess, has never been more amply demonstrated than in the swift reactions of the French people to each new German advance or re verse. By temperament, no doubt, they are more easily enheartened by triumphs or cast down by disasters than the sober ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2164 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 115

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 115 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. What a Game!-- a pamphlet, printed in Glasgow and written by the Duke of Bedford, lies before me. In the first paragraph the Duke sets forth the logic of his creed: Only last year the Prime Minister, speaking of the Finns and Russians, said: 'The service rendered by Finland to mankind is magnificent. Thev have exposed for all the world to ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2325 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

AN UNCONVENTIONAL U.S. FIGHTER

... Full Details of the American-Built Airacobra, the New Fighter Aircraft of the R.A.F. Now in Actual Service in This Country AMONGST the fighter aircraft which the R.A.F. liave re ceived from the United States, the Airacobra ranks very high indeed. To begin with, it is of the most unorthodox design it has a tri cycle undercarriage its engine is behind the pilot, and its propeller is driven by a ...

DEFENSIVE MEASURES IN BURMA

... |n View of the fact that for the first time Japan and the British Empire now share a common frontier as. a result of the Japanese occupation of Indo-Chma, these pictures are particularly apposite. They .re the first to be released of the British Forces in Burma, where the defences have recently been uT strengthened by the arrival of new equipment in quantity some of it from the United States ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 15 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1221 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs