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BEHIND the VEIL in OCCUPIED FRANCE

... CONDEMNED TO IMPRISONMENT DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION, these French citizens must suffer in silence until the day of Liberation comes Numerous French patriots are suffering imprisonment in concentration camps in France. Described by the Germans as Communists or Jews, they are nearly all men who are alleged to have taken part in underground activities against their enemies, such as sabotage ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 419 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... THE PORT OF ROSTOCK, ANCIENT AND PICTURESQUE HANSEATIC TOWN AND THE HOME OF THE GREAT HEINKEL AIRCRAFT WORKS, which has suffered a series of Hovact-atinu raids frnm a terrific concentration of the biepest and best bombers of the R.A.F. This drawine shows the town and its docks on the River Warnow and the view across Mecklenburg-Schwerin to Warnemunde on the Baltic- -Drawing by E. G. Lambert |T ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 274 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

From ALMA ATA to CHUNGKING

... A New Supply Route from Russia into China by Way of The Eternal Road the Historic Silk Route ONE by one the reads to Chungking have been stopped, but the ancient highway by which China from the earliest days maintained contact with the west remains open. Along this route, across the barren lands of Central Asia, a continuous stream of goods and munitions has helped to sustain the armies of ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 797 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

The LIFE-SAVING RAFTS of the BRITISH MERCHANT SERVICE

... The Life-Saving Rafts of the British Merchant Service On right A Hudson aircraft of the Coastal Command, R.A.F., whilst on an anti-submarine patrol, sighted a raft far out in the Atlantic. The Hudson at once signalled its position, and early the following morning a Catalina flving-boat, also belonging to Coastal Command, was sent out. After a few hours' flying the raft was again sighted, and a ...

THE CHANGE in the MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND

... THE VICTOR OF TARANTO AND MATAPAN BACK IN LONDON Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, fifty-nine years of age, Commander- in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet since June 1939, is shortly to go to Washington as head of the British Admiralty delegation in succession to Admiral Sir Charles Little he is now in London, where this picture (with Captain Dick, R.N., on right) was taken a few days ago. ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 446 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A GLANCE BACK at MALAYA and BURMA: The Latest Views to Reach Britain of These Two Campaigns

... A GLANCE BACK at MALAYA and BURMA The Latest Views to Reach Britain of These Two Campaigns THE CHINESE TROOPS WHICH CAME TO OUR AID IN BURMA A patrol, led by a standard-bearer, setting out in the Tounggoo sector a picture taken by a British Newsreel operator during the campaign AT CHINESE ADVANCED HEADQUARTERS Lieut.-General H. Alexander, G.O.C. in Burma General Sir Archibald Wavell, in ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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The U.S. ATTACKS in the PACIFIC

... BOUND FOR WAKE ISLAND TO AVENGE ITS CAPTURE BY THE JAPS A U.S. Navy fighter takes off from an aircraft-carrier at dawn, and despite the heavy sea-mists (see also the two large pictures on the right-hand page, taken during this attack) THE NEW STEEL HELMETS OF THE U.S. NAVY AND ARMY A picture taken on what was once the tennis deck of a crack passenger liner. It was one of a great convoy which ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 369 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... SWINGING OUT OVER TINY WAKE ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC, one of a squadron of U.S. fighter aircraft, accompanying the bombers, gets a good view of the installations of the Jap occupants before the big raid carried out by the U.S. Navy on February 24 The big raid by the U.S. Navy on Wake Island was carried out on February 24. On March 4 another raid was carried out on Marcus Island. But pictures of ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WAR BY AIR--Special Sphere Drawings

... THE WAR BY AIR Special Sphere Drawings SIX OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST BOMBERS-- all in THE SERVICE OF BRITAIN, to help make good the Air Minister's promise to keep up a constant offensive over Germany. These Stirlings have just been serviced and bombed-up, and are ready for the take-off for a raid In recent operations over Germany, Bomber Command have made use of Halifaxes, Manchesters, ...

PICTURES OF WARTIME INTEREST

... SURFACE COAL TO AUGMENT THE COUNTRY'S FUEL SUPPLIES Marking the top of the coal seam in a trial hole A GENERAL VIEW OF A SURFACE COAL SEAM IN WARWICKSHIRE It has been estimated that there is a minimum of 50,000,000 tons of surface coal available for tapping in this country. I his would be an appreciable addition to the country's present supplies, and do much to ease the shortage. There are ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 380 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... THE CHATWOOD TRADITION ACHIEVEMENT IS BUT ANOTHER MILESTONE ALONG THE HIGHWAY OF PROGRESS-- THE END OF THE JOURNEY LIES EVER BEYOND. H j I HIS AND BETTER The old East Anglian saying This and better '11 do this and worse won't expresses in quaint proverbial language the ideal of all who are not eontent with stagnation of purpose. There is, throughout the Chatwood organisa tion, a definite ...