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PROGRESS IN THE WAR BY AIR

... PROGRESS INI THE WAR BY AIR-- -Some New Drawings and Photographs rfl.APFRATinN RPTWFPN TUP DAP AMn TUP I ANIl PADPPC nilPINC A PAMRIMPn OPPRATIOM A rlrawino whirh ihnwt the manv functions which the Air Arm Can perform after the ground troops have made a landing on the enemy coast. (This has been partly based on the recent big raid at Dieppe) I Drawing by Roland Davies Despite the apparent ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 859 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 12 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 656 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 12 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 18 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR BY AIR--Over Land and Over Sea

... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR BY AIR Over Land and Over Sea AN AIR MINISTRY PICTURE OF THE BOMBING OF COMINES by daylight on August 29. As the aircraft completed its run over the target it took this photograph of smoke rising from other bomb bursts a subsequent photograph is published below FIRES STILL BURN IN BREMEN THE FOLLOWING DAY after a heavy raid by R.A.F. bombers Fires started in the Dock ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 787 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE CATALINA FIGHTS BACK: The Flying-boat which Broke Up a Formation of Seven Big Bombers in the Mediterranean ..

... THE CATALINA FIGHTS BACK The Flying-boat which Broke Up a Formation of Seven Big Bombers in the Mediterranean and Then Fought Off Four Fighters Tn June last, Flying Officer K. J. Riddy, U.A.F.V.R., of No. 240 Squadron, was the captain of a Catalina flying-boat engaged on an anti-submarine patrol in the Mediterranean he had been detailed to act as escort to one of H.M. ships. Whilst thus ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 238 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AMERICA ATTACKS in the S.-W. PACIFIC: A Complete Series of Official Pictures from the Solomon Islands, where ..

... AMERICA ATTACKS in the S.-W. PACIFIC A Complete Series of Official Pictures from the Solomon Islands, where the Jap Forces of Occupation were Annihilated by the U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Bombers Hp he United States Marines now hold J- six islands in the Solomon group north of Australia. They took them from the J apanese after three weeks of struggle, and thus eliminated a pos sible invasion ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 968 | Page: Page 15, 16, 17 | Tags: Photographs 

NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HOME FRONT

... RELICS OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT FOR SALE A craftsman shaping some of the Anston Stone into art pots Stonework, timber and stained glass which were salved after the Houses of Parliament had been bombed has been given to the Red Cross and St. John War Organisation. This salvage is now being offered for sale, and purchasers are having small portions converted into various shapes to the designs ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 460 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IN A FIELD HOSPITAL IN EGYPT

... THE UNDERGROUND DRESSING STATION AT EL ALAMEIN One of the wards where casualties are attended to by South African doctors An Advanced Dressing Station in the Alamein area was so exposed ro shell-fire and to bombing that it was decided finally to move the whole Station under ground. A series of rooms were therefore constructed below the earth-level, and these have formed an ideal First-Aid Post ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 227 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The BOMBING of DUSSELDORF and KARLSRUHE

... heavy night attack most of the town was still obscured by smoke from the fires still burning, and a detailed' assessment of the damage was not possible from the photo graphs the aircraft brought back. When R.A.F. reconnaissance aircraft flew over Dusseldorf in daylight on Sep tember ii the day after Bomber Command's Sufficient was seen, however, to indicate that very heavy damage had been ...

FLYING FORTRESSES ATTACK ROUEN: The Results of the Bombing of the Marshalling-yards and Railway Viaduct

... FLYING FORTRESSES ATTACK ROUEN The Results of the Bombing of the Marshalling-yards and Railway Viaduct The series of Air Ministry photographs given on this page were all taken during, and after, the recent attack on the railway marshalling-yards at Rouen by Flying Fortresses of the U.S. Army Air Force. They tell their own story of the accuracy and effectiveness of the high-level raids in ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 343 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... A TYPICAL INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF A TANK CREW ON PATROL THROUGH THE FLAT AND SANDY DESERT. Life for those engaged in this task is full of discomfort- but it is anything but tedious When the crews bed down for the night they have the sands for a bed and army blankets for a pillow In this picture note the spare petrol and water tins carried on the front of the leading vehicle IS THIS DESTINED TO ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 149 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... The Whirlwind is made by the same company that produces the highly-successful Lysander. It is one of Britain's most recent fighters it is powered with two 8B5-h.p. Rolls-Royce motors, and its armament consists of four 20-mm. cannon-guns in the nose, which give a weight of fire of 600 lb. per minute. It has just been made public that some of these fighters have been modified to carry tw> bombs ...