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The PARIS of TO-DAY: A Once-Proud City Which Now Lies Under the Heel of the Conqueror

... The PARIS of TO-DAY A Once-Proud City Which Now Lies Under the Heel of the Conqueror New and Intimate Glimpses of Life in a Subdued Capital j por almost two years now Paris has been in the occupation of the enemy. From time to time we have been allowed glimpses of what life under the Germans has meant to that once- gay city, but very few pictures have been allowed to emerge and then only those ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 696 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEWS ITEMS FROM THE U.S. AND ICELAND

... U.S. GLIDER PILOTS IN TRAINING A new development which the American Navy have taken up strongly during recent months THE SCENE AT THE AIRFIELD AT PARRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, where the glider pilots of the United States Marines are being trained Gliding is a branch of aviation which has now been taken up seriously by the United States Marines. Training-headquarters have been located at ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 344 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The EXODUS from BURMA BY AIR: Two Special Sphere Drawings by Roland Davies which Show How British Civilians ..

... The EXODUS from BURMA BY AIR Two Special Sphere Drawings by Roland Davies which Show How British Civilians Were Brought Out of the Danger Areas in Big Transport Aircraft Aircraft played a large part throughout the Burma campaign in bringing out great numbers of civilians and soldiers before the rapid advance of the Japs rendered the continued operation of aircraft impossible. A great number ...

The ATTACK on the PRINZ EUGEN: The Men of Coastal Command Who Made the Assault on the German Cruiser

... The ATTACK on the PRINZ EUGEN The Men of Coastal Command Who Made the Assault on the German Cruiser Hugging the shore and protected by a destroyer screen and a fighter escort, the German cruiser Prinz Eugen was sighted on Sunday evening. May 17, steaming south wards along the Norwegian coast. She was close in shore, ringed round with destroyers in such a way as to provide the greatest ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 360 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The END of a GERMAN FIGHTER: An F.W. 190--Germany's Latest and Fastest Fighter--Destroyed in Mid-Air by a ..

... The END of a GERMAN FIGHTER An F.W. 190-- Germany's Latest and Fastest Fighter Destroyed in Mid-Air by a British Spitfire A series of pictures taken during the combat by the Spitfire's camera-gun How careful the R.A.F. are to avoid over-statement is shown by the report made by Flight Sergeant Robson, a New Zealander, whose gun-coupled camera took this excellent series of pictures of his recent ...

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... BREWED BQTTLED BY WHITBREAD CO.. LTD., BREWED BQTTLED BY WHITBREAD CO.. LTD., MORE POPULAR THAN EVER JN the Mess, in Hotels, Restaur^ ants and Bars no less than in the Home the call is for V/hitbread's superb Pale Ale. Brewed from British hops and barley appetising, refreshing, stimulating Whitbread's superb Pale Ale is more popular than ever. WHITBREAD'S PALE ALE LONDON, E.C. I. ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 63 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS: An Experiment in Autobiography--XI

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- XI By J. G. LITTLE BOOKS.-- Though now launched on a congenial career and a means of earning a modest livelihood, tradition still remained too strong to he entirely broken down. Parental suspicion of writing as a safe or respectable career continued for a year or two longer to deter me from putting all my counters on the pen. I did not ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1732 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

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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A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 143

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 143 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A New Note of Confi dence.-- Usually When changes of opinion alter our view of war, those changes filter into our consciousness from a hundred sources, and very gradually. They are more like links in a chain of circumstantial evidence than a single and damning piece of direct evidence. But not always, the collapse ol f ranee was a single ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1792 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

TRANSITION DAYS IN FRANCE'S EMPIRE: Second Largest in the World, the French Colonial Empire is Now Being ..

... TRANSITION DAYS IN FRANCE'S EMPIRE Second Largest in the World, the French Colonial Empire is Now Being Thoroughly Shaken Up Owing to the Vichy Policy of Collaboration with the Germans By FERDINAND TUOHY PERHAPS it is as well that not more than two or three millions at most of the 60,000,000 populating the French Colonial Empire, the second largest in the world, are sitting up and taking ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2147 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Maps  Photographs