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FOUR NEWS PICTURES OF THE WEEK

... Our News Pictures of the Week JUST AFTER THE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE (476 to 25) The Prime Minister and his daughter back at No. 10, Downing Street from the House of Commons. Sergeant Mary Churchill of the A.T.S. had received seven days leave, which covered her father's return from the U.S. and the debate in Parliament CAPTURED IN LIBYA AND EN ROUTE FOR CANADA Germans of a Panzer Divisioi leaving ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHAT IS AIR SUPERIORITY?: Did we Have it in Libya; and Did we Use it Correctly?

... WHAT IS AIR SUPERIORITY? Did we Have it in Libya and Did we Use it Correctly? By PATRICK HAMILTON IF the last Libyan campaign is looked at as consisting of two separate phases-- prior to the fall of Bir Hacheim and afterwards-- several rather puzzling features become a little clearer. Particularly does this apply to the air superiority question. Many are asking if we ever in fact had it, ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1574 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Photographs 

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

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- XIV By J. G. A COUNTRY HOUSE.-- I suppose almost every Briton forms in early youth from a tried model the picture of country life which delights and comforts him and gives him his pride and glory in England (or Scotland or Wales) as long as he lives. He may visit a hundred beauty spots and experience the delights of a score of country ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1507 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SECOND IN COMMAND OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET WITH THE SUBMARINE COMMANDER WHO HAS JUST BEEN AWARDED THE V.C

... â– iir--miiiMiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii --i THE SECOND IN COMMAND OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET WITH THE SUBMARINE COMMANDER WHO HAS JUST BEEN AWARDED THE V.C VICE-ADMIRAL SIR HENRY PRIDHAM-WIPPELL WITH COMMANDER MIERS, V.C., D.S.O. (ON RIGHT), ON THE DECK OF H.M. SUBMARINE TORBAY ()n July 7 it was announced that Commander Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, D.S.O., had been awarded the Victoria Cross, for ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 254 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 150

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 150 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. El Alamein.-- On the great battle which has raged for many days round El Alamein I have deliberately refrained from comment. One day it may be cited as a decisive battle of the world. We to-day are in no position to judge, any more than we can prophesy whether it will be a victory or defeat. We gained in con fidence justifiably as the days ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1864 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

LEADERSHIP IS HALF THE BATTLE: The Example of Rommel is Now Before Us, and the Whole Question of Leadership in ..

... LEADERSHIP IS HALF THE BATTLE The Example of Rommel is Now Before Us, and the Whole Question of Leadership in Battle is Under Scrutiny. We, too, Have Our Rommels if Only We Would Employ Them in the Right Fields of Action By FERDINAND TUOHY WHEN matters go wrong for British arms a praiseworthy national characteristic as likely as not makes itself felt-- namely, not to visit blame on the ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1874 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

The Fighting in Libya: AIR AND LAND FORCES IN CO-OPERATION; Some Points on the Problem of Unified Control and ..

... The Fighting in Libya AIR AND LAND FORCES IN CO-OPERATION Some Points on the Problem of Unified Con trol and Communication in Modern Warfan IT is becoming quite clear that the crucia problem of modern tactics is the join difficulty first, of keeping G.H.Q. informed of what is happening over a battle area of several hundred square miles, and secondly of securing rapid action upon the decisions ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1654 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

DITCHING A PLANE: How it is Done by a Big Bomber when It Can No Longer be Kept Up in the Air Over the Sea

... DITCHING A PLANE How it is Done by a Big Bomber when It Can No Longer be Kept Up in the Air Over the Sea i iere are only two ways in which a pilot or a crew can alight on the sea. Either they can bale out, or the aircraft can be landed on the surface ditching, as it is c: lied. The first method is not often used by bomber c /s, their aircraft generally keeping afloat for a sufficient ti.Tie ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 354 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE LATIN BLOC IDEA COMES UP AGAIN: The Laval-Franco-Mussolini Scheme for Combining Forces in the Mediterranean ..

... THE LATIN BLOC IDEA COMES UP AGAIN The Laval-Franco-Mussolini Scheme for Combining Forces in the Mediterranean and Establishing Zones of Influence In and Around the Inland Sea after We have been Ousted from Gibraltar, Malta and Other Key Positions Described by FERDINAND TUOHY OUR worsened position in the Mediterranean automatically heightened the hopes of those who are intriguing for a ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1950 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WHEN THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE ARE DE-OCCUPIED: A Little-known Work which is now Actively Going On in Britain to ..

... WHEN THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE ARE DE-OCCUPIED A Little-known Work which is now Actively Going On in Britain to Prepare Refugee Women to Assist in the Rehabilitation of Their Own Countries After the Expulsion of the German Invaders Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE strangest classroom in London is on the third storey of a big building in Bloomsbury. The students are women between the ages of ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1608 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 04 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 127 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs