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A VISIT TO THE LUCKIEST REFUGEES

... The Breton Fishermen of the West Country Who are Now Established in One Corner of Cornwall which They Have Made Their Very Own. With a Note on the Nazis' Present Treatment of Brittany in Occupied France By FERDINAND TUOHY SEARCH Europe, and you will have difficulty in finding luckier refugees from Hitler than the Bretons in Cornwall. Not many in number, counting women and children and adopted ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1945 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

TANKS AND GUNS IN THE DESERT

... THE TANK COMMANDER OF A U.S. CREW, a sergeant, uses his binoculars to inspect a distant point in the desert through his open turret. American crews are now working side by side with British Tank Regiments in Egypt. Note the manner in which the machine-gun is fixed on a swivel mounting in this* picture and also the open turret flaps MR. R. G. CASEY, MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, hu just ...

ATTACK BY THE R.A.F.: And the Types of Aircraft which are Being Employed--special sphere drawings

... ATTACK BY THE R.A.F. And the Types of Aircraft which are Being Employed-- special sphere drawings THE LATEST TYPE OF FLYING FORTRESS, WITH WHICH THE U.S. AIR FORCES HAVE BEEN SCORING NOTABLE SUCCESSES in high-level, daytime bombing against the Germans. What the new type looks like, how it is armed and how its successes have been achieved- -Drawing by Roland Davits When the first of the Flying ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 546 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... BRITAIN S NEW HEAVY INFANTRY TANK, THE CHURCHILL, IS LANDED FROM A T.L.C. and moves off at speed over rough ground A scene during battle manoeuvres in Britain (This is one of the first pictures to be released showing the new tank in action) All the world has known of the existence of the Churchill tank details of its construction were announced by the Prime Minister himself during the Commons ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 203 | Page: Page 3 | 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 

Graphic

... 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 ...

HEAVY WEATHER AT SEA

... A special Sphere drawing by Montague Dawson A British Escort Vessel Encounters an Exceptionally High Sea whilst on Patrol Duty in Mid-Atlantic The vessel shown here is a sloop of 990 tons, a type which has many times proved its great worth during the present war With a Note on the Sailors' Everlasting Foe Weather By A. J. McWHINNIE THOUSANDS of years before mines, torpedoes, bombs and shells ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 769 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

COAL-THE LIFE-BLOOD OF BRITAIN'S WAR INDUSTRIES

... COAL-the life-blood of Britain's war industries The Problem of the Coal Industry has been Complicated by the Government's Confused Policy with Regard to Actual Production and also the Call-up for Army Service of Numbers of Miners. The Present Position with Regard to Output and Working Conditions is Here Thoroughly Reviewed By CHARLES GRAVES WITH the approach of winter and the rationing of fuel ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1713 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

AFTER ROMMEL'S ABORTIVE DRIVE IN EGYPT

... ___ THE 8TH ARMY PURSUE THE RETREATING ENEMY AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE GERMAN ATTACK AT EL HEMEIMAT A British 25-pounder following in the wake of the Germans. The smoke from destroyed enemy vehicles can be seen on the horizon on the lorry are equipment and ammunition and supplies for the gunners gun, limber and lorry are all camouflaged for desert conditions FIGHTING IN THE DESERT AROUND EL ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 137 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs