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THE WOMAN WHO WENT ON A BOMBING RAID

... the woman who went on a BOMBING RAID. Photographer MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE teas in one of the United States aero planes which bombed Tunis and is seen standing on a machine which no doubt in compliment to her bears the name of 44 Peggy. She stated on her return to Miami Fla from North Africa that the main Tunis airfield was jammed with transports, fighters and Junkers 88's and that the American ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF THE WEEK HEROES, A LEADER, WEDDINGS ENGAGEMENT AND ARTISTS

... PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF THE WEEK ieroes, a leader, weddings, ENGAGEMENl! ARTISTS. Here 's a peep behind the scenes showing how the PUPPET LADY PLAYS THE PIANO at the Belgian Exhibition recently opened at Messrs. Thos. Cook's in Berkeley Street. BABY KEITH GOULD wearing the Victoria Cross with which his father, PETTY OFFICER T. GOULD, has been invested. Gould and Lieut. P. S. W. Roberts are the V ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 357 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TALES OF MANHATTAN TAILS! COAT OF DESTINY RUNS DOWN THE SOCIAL GAMUT

... . First Episode: Luther (EUGENE PALLETTE), the valet ushers in the master tailors with the perfect tail-coat for Mr. Orman. First Episode Mrs. HaOoway (RITA HAYWORTH) sees HaUotcay (THOMAS MITCHELL) threatening her lover Orman (CHARLES BOYER). First Episode Orman, great actor to the last, pretends that he was acting the part of a wounded man, and takes leave of Mr. and Mrs. Halloway. Second ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 606 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BOMB-AIMER TRAINEE

... . The remarkable accuracy of the R.A.F. bomb-aimers insures that the maximum of destruction to enemy tear effort results from tJie bin, concentrated raids which enemy dockyards, industrial areas and U-boat bases get regularly from Bomber Command. Here a debutant bomb-aimer, eyes glued to the bomb-sight, and body tense, is preparing for the great moment which his training has led up to the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEWS AND PERSONALITIES IN PICTURE FOR CAMERA REVIEWS THE WEEK'S LIGHTER NEWS

... NEWS AND PERSONALITIES IN PICTURE FO0 CAMERA REVIEWS THE WEEK'S LIGHTER NEWS. This romantic landscape, which is being hung in the new 44 Churchill British Restaur ant at Ilford, has been LENT FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE BY H.M. THE KING. Right MAJOR A. HUSKISSON, M.C., SYDNEY SMITH, MEL BOURNE INMAN and TOM WEBSTER at the opening of Simpson Services Club billiard- room, ivhen a championship ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 407 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TIN-FISH PROFICIENCY ALL 85% AND OVER

... ft WREN TORPEDOMEN hoisting a torpedo, or tin-fish aboard a naval coastal craft at a British naval port. Looking after the tail part of a torpedo when it is hoisted away ifn the Wren Torpedomen have overhauled it. A gang of Wren Torpedomen working above and below a torpedo a job that means the release of men for more vital duties at sea. Learning how to set the preselected range and depth ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 363 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PRINCESSES IN THE RANKS AS GIRL GUIDES

... . IH.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH (right) and H.R.H. PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE (second from left are members of the first Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides, and are here seen marching smartly along in the ranks, someichere in the country. Princess Elizabeth is now. a Sea Ranger, and recently sent a message of greeting by carrier-pigeon to all Rangers, Guides and Brownies. She will be seventeen ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 137 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME

... TWO-GOLOUR CONTRASTS SPRING UTILITY COATS NEAT WOOL FROCKS TV K ANY decades have passed since Courtauld materials made their d6but M and great advances have been made in their manufacture Now thev are extensively used for war work, hence there is only a limited quantity available for fashion and it is highly prized. Susan Small has been able to acquire some of it and has created the model seen ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 269 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THRASHER'S CREW AND AMERICAN AIRMAN INVESTED WITH HONOURS

... I THRASHER'S CREW AND AMERICAN AIRMAN INVESTED WITH HONOURS. LIEUT.-Ct ONEL CHESLEY PETERSON, D.S.C., D.F.C., American Army Air Force, is seen leaving the Palace with MRS. PETERSON, after being invested with the S.O. He was one of four American Air Force officers to be decorated n that occasion, the others receiving the D.F.C. He commanded the 71st gle Squadron and during the 18 months' ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 279 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CLEO FROM RIO OF THE PALACE THEATRE

... . GABRIELLE BRUNE plays Sally in 44 Full Swing, the successful musical come with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge at the Palace Theatre. Her numbtts include 44 Cleo from Rio, 44 Mamma, Buy Me That, 44 Love is Love Anywhere> and 44 Follow My Dancing Feet PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED DANIELS. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 56 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SALUTE TO NORWAY'S UNCONQUERABLE SPIRIT

... . Happy carefree Norway in the summer of 1939 the bride Anna Korstad (ELIZABETH FRASER), cuts the cake at her wedding breakfast. Gunner Korstad (RICHARD DERR) is the bridegroom. The brutal invaders take possession hordes of Nasi soldiers, with ful I equipment, stream into the peaceful Norwegian village to the horror ani astonishment of the inhabitants. A taste of the promised German 44 ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 525 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FAMILY OF THE EIGHTH ARMY AIR ARM CHIEF

... . AIR VICE-MARSHAL HARRY BROADHURST, aged thirty-seven, is the youngest Air Vice-Marshal in R.A.F. history. He has been appointed to command the Western Desert Allied Air Forces. He has been awarded the D.S.O. and Bar, D.F.C. and Bar, and A.F.C., has flown over 600 operational hours in fighters and shot down at least twelve enemy planes He was a famous peacetime pilot, and specialised in ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 100 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs