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PUSH AND PAUSE ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

... 44 PUSH AND PAUSE ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT Throughout the Present Campaign the German Advance has Followed a Set Programme Three Days of Furious Advance Followed by Ten Days to Re-equip and Remount the Plaited Offensive. Why this Method has been Imposed on the Germans is Described Here in a Series of Special Notes and Diagram Drawings AN analysis of the four and a half months of fighting on the ...

DE GAULLE ALSO KNOWS ABOUT TANKS

... Are We Using General de Gaulle as much as We Might, Both for the Good of his Country and of Our Own A Suggestion for the Creation of a General Staff to Deal with Mechanisation Alone By FERDINAND TUOHY THIS is a tank war, says Stalin to Lord Beaverbrook. But it 's also an aeroplane war, queries Lord Beaverbrook of Stalin. It will finish by being an aero-tank war, sums up Stalin. With all this ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1978 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE COMING OF THE SEA OTTER

... THE COMING OF THE SEA OTTER The Cargo Vessel of Revolutionary Design and Construction for the Battle of the Atlantic THE drawing by Mr. Lambert, reproduced above, has been made from photographic material in THE SPHERE'S possession. It shows an 80-ft. model of the new U.S. Sea Otter class of cargo-ship, con cerning which the well-known American magazine Time has given the following details: ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1063 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

A NEW ANGLE on PAPER SALVAGE

... This is One of the Most Urgent of War Tasks at the Present Moment. What can be Done in this Connection, and How the Country can Best be Served, is Here Discussed in Full By CHARLES GRAVES IT may seem a far, almost a far-fetched, cry from Ruff's Guide to the Turf or Ally Sloper's Half Holiday to ack-ack gunfire. Lord Beaverbrook's demand for a minimum of 100,000 tons of waste paper and waste ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2069 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Photographs 

WAIFS & STRAYS

... WAIFS STRAYS WAIFS STRAYS SOCIETY ST. MICHAEL'S, JOEL STREET, PINNER, MIDDLESEX Bankers Barclays Ltd. The WAR and HOMELESS CHILDREN THE SOCIETY CAN 6,121 CHILDREN TO PROVIDE THE ANSWER FEED AND CLOTHE WITH YOUR HELP EVERY DAY 4 CHILDREN RECEIVED EVERY DAY. 1,683 TAKEN FROM DANGER AREAS INTO 60 SPECIAL WAR NURSERIES. ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 51 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: 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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... WHAT DO YOU SAY WHEN YOU ARE BUYING ASPIRIN? j-- NO you simply say a bottle of aspirin tablets, please Or do you specify Howards' Aspirin Nobody would suggest that if you adopt the former course you will fail to cure your headache. But on the other hand, it is well to realise that when manufacturers brand a product-- making it readily identifiable by name-- they automatically pledge ...

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

TO THE HEROES OF TOBRUK

... A Memorial to the Men Who Have Given Their Lives in its Defence Two official pictures This Memorial has been built by Royal Australian Engineers under shellfire and aerial bombardment at Tobruk. It is dedicated to those who have given their lives in the defence of this bastion of the Middle East. Recently the Memorial was unveiled by Major-General Mcshead, the General Officer Commanding at ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 129 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FIGHTER SWEEPS by the R.A.F. and the NEW HURRICANE BOMBER

... OFF OVER THE CHANNEL FOR ONE OF THEIR FAMOUS FIGHTER SWEEPS A mass formation of Spitfires of the R.A.F. heading out to sea for one of the sweeps which are now being carried out, in> daylight, in almost continuous sequence as part of our Western air offensive against the Germans AN INCIDENT DURING OUR GREAT AIR OFFENSIVE IN THE WEST Immediately one of the fighter aircraft returns, the ground ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 517 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PENETRATION BY PANZERS

... THE preservation of an army's Communications has, of course, always been a matter of the most vital concern to a military commander. Fortunately for the B.E.F., the expenditure of ammunition had not been heavy in the opening days of the campaign in Flanders-- otherwise the situation when the French 9th Army collapsed would have been hazardous indeed. The above bird's-eye view has been drawn to ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 605 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs