... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Dry r in full flower! WOOD PRESERVING STAIN AND WHITE ANT DESTROYER LTD. Donington House, Norfolk Street, Strand, London, W.C.2 WHEREVER TIMBER IS USED PROTECTS IT For forty years Solignum has been used all over the world for the protection of timber against attack by Dry-Rot, Damp and Insect Pests but never before has this protection been of such vital importance as now. In this country ...

... FIGHTER PILOTS: AIRMEN FROM AMERICA WHO ARE FLYING WITH THE R.A.F. IN THEIR DAILY SWEEPS OVER OCCUPIED TERRITORY These men are all pilots of the Third American Eagle (Fighter) Squadron with other Allied pilots they have been taking part in the R.A.F. sweeps over Occupied Territory in France and Belgium. One of their latest exploits was to escort Boston bombers in a sweep over Ostend and ...

... CINCE our all-out fighter and day-bomber offensive over Northern France began in earnest, many people have been puzzled by the outcome of these intensive operations, as no single day has yielded big dividends in the shape of great numbers of enemy aircraft shot down even more puzzling have been the days when we have lost more machines than the enemy. But there are good reasons for these ...

... SPRING COMES to RUSSIA Special Sphere Drawings and Diagrams For nearly ten months Leningrad has endured a siege, accompanied by almost perpetual fighting. It was on July 16 last year that it was announced that the Germans were advancing: but Leningrad itself was determined to resist to the uttermost. Vast sums had been expended on its defence; the fortifications were 50 miles deep; twenty ...

... THE SAILOR'S WORST ENEMY Fire at Sea on a Modern Warship By M. G. GREYSMITH There 's fire in the cabin, fire down below. Chanty. NEXT to the sea itself, and almost as incalculable a foe, fire still remains the sailor's worst enemy. It is hard to realise that a modern warship, so essentially a thing of steel, can be gutted and sunk in a few hours if fire gets a hold. Yet the landsman need only ...

... The Great Alaskan Highway First Pictures of the New Link from the United States, through Canada, to the Air Bases in Alaska W/e have already published details in The Sphere concerning the great new highway which is, at this moment, in course of construction through the frozen wastes of British Columbia and the Yukon. Here we are enabled to publish a first set of pictures showing the work ...

... STAMP COLLECTIONS AND THE WAR How World Events Have Affected the Great Body of Philatelists the Smuggling into this Country of Rich Collections from Abroad and Some of the New Stamp Issues and Their Present-day Worth Described by CHARLES GRAVES IT was a curious scene. Nineteen men and a woman were sitting round a long green-baize table and bidding pounds and pounds for little bits of paper, It ...

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