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... Acknowledged This film _ combines as a better film h i g h speed and latitude in exposure with colour sensitivity, ensuring good results under all normal photographic conditions. Added to these qualities are correct gradation and fine grain, which enable even the beginner to obtain excellent contact prints, whilst enlargements can be made without any loss of definition. HOUGHTON BUTCHER ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 67 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Gordon's

... Gordons ,-v\W Ss tVe few By Appointment to H.M. King George VI. Stands Sup*tJ2AfiSL Maximum Prices per bottle 25/3; Half bottle 13/3. Gt. Britain Northern Ireland only ...

WHY VON ARNIM FAILED: An Analysis of General Alexander's Strategy in Attacking in the Centre: and Drawback of ..

... IN wax, more can often be learned from the mistakes of the enemy than from our own failures. It is well established by now that in the campaign which has just ended in Tunisia, errors of strategy and tactics on the part of the Axis have been abundant, while the planning of the Allied Command and the generalship of the commanders of the Allied armies have compelled universal admiration. From El ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1442 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

THE FINAL PHASE--THE PRISONERS POUR IN

... THE GERMAN SURRENDER AT BIZERTA Some of the 25,000 Axis prisoners who gave themselves up to the U.S. troops in the Bizerta area on May 7 and the succeeding day. They left behind them a burning port, and came in their thousands to surrender after a whirlwind campaign which left them dazed How the German prisoners streamed into our lines in the country outside Tunis, the day before that city ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... W.A.A.F. STAND BY FOR THE RETURN OF THE BOMBERS. This is the crew of a Halifax bomber which had just returned from a big raid on Germany. The airmen taking part in such raids can now go straight from their aircraft to the new Drying Room which has been opened to them on various stations, and which are each under the care of a W.A.A.F. Safety Equipment Assistant. This is the latest method in ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 231 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LEAST-KNOWN MEDITERRANEAN ISLE

... Mussolini's Development of the Big Island of Sardinia Before, and Since, the Opening of War. Described by FERDINAND TUOHY CONSIDERING the continuous role Sardinia has played in Europe's war-making since 1936, it is odd that we haven't heard more about this second largest island of the Mediterranean. Sardinia was used as one of the Italian bases for the incursion into the affairs of Spain, ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1900 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM the HEROIC ISLAND of MALTA

... To commemorate the sterling service rendered by the men of one of the regiments stationed in Malta, a tablet in the form of their regimental badge was recently unveiled in the rocky walls of a much blitzed dockside building. Prior to the unveiling, detachments of the regiment were inspected by Vice- Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham, former Vice- Admiral of the British Mediterranean island outpost. ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 588 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BEAUFIGHTERS ATTACK A NAZI CONVOY WITH CANNON AND TORPEDO

... Pictures taken during the action On May .17, a Nazi convoy consisting of six supply ships and eight escort vessels was attacked by Beaufighters of Coastal Command whilst steaming north off the fcutch coast. The R.A.F. wing was led by Wing-Commander H. G. N. Wheeler, D.F.C. (who comes from London) the torpedo-carrying Beaufighters were commanded by Squadron-Leader G. D. Sise, D.F.C., a New ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 336 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Merry Month

... Memories are short, but few of those with the longest memories will recall a May of such early and unusual beauty. The chestnuts were out while the almond blossom was yet unfading may blos somed while lilac and wisteria were yet on the bough. Petunias and summer flowers were in bloom while the azaleas and rhodo dendrons were still in their prime. The roses could not wait till June, nor the ...

American Women on the Land

... THE United States as yet has not an official Women's Land Army, but women are rapidly beginning to fill some of the gaps in the farming ranks left by the call-up to the Armed Forces Many volunteers come from the 4-H Clubs the four H's being J Health, Heart, Happiness and Home which have been formed in many districts of the States. The American farmer was, to begin with, very sceptical over the ...

Feeding the Multitude

... THE physiological and economic aspects of the country's war time dietetic problems are of the greatest interest to everyone, especially since rationing of essential foods and the shortage of the less important but more interesting subsidiary dietary items such as fish, fruit, eggs, dried fruits, candied peel and condiments has narrowed the range and size of dishes on the menu. From the point ...

Winter Vegetables

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent AFTER such wide publicity, there would seem to be little excuse for the gardener who fails to provide his family with plenty of greenstuff and other vegetables for winter use. But it is a failing which many novices find difficult to avoid for the first few years of their gardening experience, and a very understandable one. Early in the year, when stored roots ...