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SEARCHLIGHT GIRLS

... . Warmly wrapped up in their new woollen smocks, A.T.S. GIRLS search the night skies of England for enemy raiders. Lengthy experimental trials have proved that in this, one of their latest duties, the girls are thoroughly capable of taking over from the men whom they replace. More pictures appear further on in this issue. ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 56 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ACTION STATIONS AT AN ALL-A.T.S. SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY

... . A MEMBER OF AN ALL-A.T.S. SEARCHLIGHT CREW adjusts the carbon in the searchlight. In the beam of the searchlight, THIS MEMBER OF THE A.T.S. is seen beside the apparatus on the look-out for enemy raiders. THIS YOUNG OPERATOR kk drives the beam to the required angle. By means of this gear she adjusts the searchlight according to instructions from Control. PRIVATE TAMEA MULLA (formerly a mother ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 203 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE TURKISH PRESIDENT, MADAME INÖNÜ AND OZDEN

... THE TURKISH PRESIDENT, MADAME INONU AND OZDEN. HIS EXCELLENCY ISMET INONt), President of the Turkish Republic, who conferred with Mr. Churchill at Adana posed xcith his favourite daughter, OZDEN. The inauguration of a 44 knitting week for Turkish ladies MME. INONt) centre presides at a meeting of workers. PHOTOGRAPHS BY W. BOSSHARD. MR. CHURCHILL'S 44 surprise visit to Turkey after the ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ST. JAMES'S PALACE TRANSFORMED INTO A RED CROSS OFFICE

... . Ambassadors'' Court St. Jameses Palacey is now the ENQUIRY BUREAU, PRISONERS OF WAR DEPARTMENT of the British Red Cross. A general view of the. Throne Room filing clerks at work with the SHROUDED GOLD CANOPY in the background. CLERKING IN THE THRONE ROOM: Red Cross workers at deal tables under the famous Lawrence portrait of George IV. Henry Villus portrait gazes down on a girl clerk ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 198 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... THE FIRST BRITISH WOMEN TO ENTER BENGHAZI AFTER ITS OCCUPATION BY THE EIGHTH ARMY Three Queen Alexandra Nursing Sisters in their battle-dress on the water-front of the harbour |\|ow that the tide of battle has flowed past Benghazi, this important Cyrenaican town is rapidly being repaired, and its harbour being cleared to receive supply vessels from Egypt and to act as an advance base for the ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 185 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 175

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 175 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.t. Annus Mirabilis. --We shall no doubt set up 1943. -4 or -5 as annus mirabilis, the year of victory and peace. I shall still put forward the superior claims of 1942, For never in any year we have known has a blacker worst turned the best to the brave. I won't go into historical details. 1 note in mv own diary that the week of February ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2213 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE EXTENDED USE OF THE MINE

... WRITERS throughout the ages have dis cerned a gnomic quality in the German --a dog-in-the-manger attitude that leads to extraordinary acts of mean and petty spiteful ness when things go the wrong way with him. This was first exemplified on a grand scale in the last war, especially at the time of Nivelle's abortive advance. Where the Ger mans had retreated, the land was not only devastated by ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1569 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

BITTER FIGHTING in NEW GUINEA: The Grimmer Aspects of the papuan Campaign--Japanese Fatalism, and the Hardships ..

... HORROR has piled on horror in this war, but it is doubtful whether any of the major theatres has known the sheer, concentrated terror of the otherwise diminutive Papuan cam paign. We are just beginning to learn of the extraordinary conditions under which our young Australian and American allies have been fighting in this distant abode of former head hunters; the climate and terrain have been ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1333 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

FILM HAREMS--AMERICAN AND GERMAN STYLE

... FILM HAREMS -AMERICAN AND GERMAN STYLE. These film bathing beauties are in the screen s biggest bath-tub, built for 44 ARABIAN NIGHTS, Walter W anger's Technicolor extravaganza for Universal, due at the Leicester Square Theatre on January 22. HELEN PENDER, PEGGY SATTERLEE, PHYLLIS FORBES, ELYSE KNOX, BURNU ACQUANETTA and ELOISE HART (I. to r.), six of the picked beauties for the harem ...

SCHWEPPES LIMITED LONDON

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Published: Wednesday 27 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 27 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM THE RUSSIAN FRONT

... This winter the German retreats on the Eastern Front cannot be attributed to Nazi unpreparedness for the intense cold, for the Germans have been boasting of the winter equipment issued to the troops. The design for this was approved by Hitler himself as far back as last April and after the Fiihrer's approval the equipment was put into mass production. The Infantry uniform shown above consists ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 444 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

British Celanese Limited

... Briti sh Cela nese I. i nt i ted. gg U- SoU Manufacturers of Celanese Yarns and Fabrics and Proprietors of the Trade Mark 4 Celanese tanover Square, London ...