... Spot Bombing by Day and Area Bombing by Night Compared by LEONARD R. GRIBBLE DEVELOPMENTS in the R.A.F.'s air offensive of the past days have proved with little room for doubt that bombing in daylight with a formation of heavy, speedy aircraft, well able to answer the challenge of enemy fighters, is more directly effective than night bombing. The object-lessons provided by the Lancasters that ...

... NEW CANDIDATES FOR THE LATE ARRIVALS CLUB An incident on the way back after a forced landing in the desert. The six members of the crew of a Wellington decide to round up enemy transport to take them back to the British lines- -Drawing by F.. Byatt HThe latest Royal Air Force crew to walk back covered over 350 miles of enemy territory to rejoin their squadron after an absence of thirty days. ...

... SAITHE, SAITHE Or, Have You the Megrims? A Discourse on the New Fish and How to Eat Them By CHARLES GRAVES IT is just a month since the new Fish Distribution Scheme was launched by the Ministry of Food, and many of you will already have found new kinds of fish at the fish monger's-- some with strange names and even stranger appearances. Actually, you have eaten most, if not all, of them ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 168 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Radiant Dawn.-- In the radiant dawn which comes at last after the longest, darkest night we have known, he is a remarkable man who dares not rejoice and sing, a very sick man who does not think sanely, clearly and serenely again. It is a positive duty tor eacn 01 us calmly and thankfully to assess the possibilities of the mifaculous ...

... THE BIGGEST SEA-BORNE FXPFHITION IN HISTORY The Landing of the U.S. and British Forces in North Africa A Series of Official Photographs Showing How the Troops Were Put Ashore, and How They Immediately Occupied Their Strategic Objectives (See also following pages On this and the following pages we publish a series of official pictures taken during the U.S. and British landings on the North ...

... directed by an officer standing on the turret they can, and have, shot up, hit and destroyed enemy tanks before they knew what had hit 'em.' Five days after the battle had opened, a single squadron of Shermans, manoeuvring near the Miteiriya ridge, destroyed 16 German tanks in less than half an hour, without receiving a single shot in return. This was, indeed, irresistible warfare. From a ...

... UP till three weeks ago, Sunday, November 8, North Africa and Southern France had ex perienced no fighting, the only warfare taking place upon the sea when British convoys to Malta were attacked by Italy's naval and air force. Suddenly the scene changed with the landing of American troops. oo complete was the initial success ot the Allies the safe arrival of the great armada, some 350 warships ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS. Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. MODERN BIOGRAPHY.-- No doubt there were faults in the three-decker biography of the Victorian notable. It could be dull and prosy, and pay far too much attention to career, and far too little to character and home associations. In the case of statesmen, readers were often fobbed off with a one ...

... 1742 1942 WHITBREAD Co. Ltd. Brewers of ale and stout for two centuries IN QUEST OF GOOD HOTELS ADVICE BY ASHLEY COURTENAY Letters, accompanied, by a stamped, addressed envelope- for reply, should be addressed to him c/o The Editor, The Sphere, Commonwealth House, i. New Oxford Street, London, W.C.i. BOUHNE HALL HOTEI Bournemouth Offers shops, scenery and plenty of sunshine. Provides admirable ...

... WOMFN AT WAR Sorne New Pictures of Wartime Occupations YYV^MI^IN l YVA\I\ jn Bri(ish Shipyard and Factory WOMEN AS ELECTRIC WELDERS IN THE SHIPYARD Mrs. Thomson with her team Note the head-gear which screens their faces from the intense light of the electric arcs SOME OF THE WOMEN WELDERS, photographed whilst filing the edges of the ships' manholes Mrs. Margaret Thomson, a thirty-six-year-old ...

... THE SANDSTORMS WHICH SWEPT THE DESERT DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER One very severe storm came when heavy Allied air support was going out as a Dreliminary to a big attack by elements of the 8th Army. In this drawing a Staff car and lorry iust behind the battle-line are seen immobilised dnrino the progress of this severe sandstorm- -Drawing by W. G. W hitaker Special Sphere Drawings For some ...

... The Retreat of the Japanese in New Guinea The Crossing of the Owen Stanley Range And the Harbour of Rabaul, Chief Jap Base in the South-West Pacific RABAUL.-- Ever since last January, when the Japanese seized Rabaul, the chief town on the island of New Britain, the Allied Air Force has been subjecting it to bombing raids. The enemy has made the harbour and adjacent aerodrome their chief base ...