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NEW LAMPS and OLD: A Fortnighty Couserie on Life and Letters

... WHAT'S TO COME?-- It must have happened to many nations in Europe in the past five centuries or more to find themselves in thick fog as regards what might lie round the next bend. Wars, revolutions and such convul sions must often have left- the peoples totally ignorant of what sort 0/ world awaited them when the trouble subsided. It was so with Germany in 1918; probably with France towards ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1764 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

More About the PILOTLESS PLANE: And How It is Launched from the Pas de Calais Against Southern England

... 'The mam facts about the new German secret weapon are now known to most people through statements made in the House of Commons and descriptions in the Press. The pilotless planes are launched from catapult projectors (which are probably heavily camouflaged) located in the Pas de Calais and as far south as Dieppe. The plane itself carries a jet-driven petrol engine, which gives it a speed in ...

HOW THE ADJUTANT-GENERAL WORKS: CHANGES IN THE HOME GUARD

... IT is impossible to imagine any business saddling itself with the responsibility of knowing all about several million employees from their birth marks and married status to their latest staff job-- scattered all over the globe. And yet that, of course, is exactly what the Army has to do through its Adjutant-General's Branch. No wonder the postings are occasionally delayed or go astray. Look at ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1647 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 01 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 22 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

131 The Fateful Number Which Dogged a Man's Life

... 1 3 1 The Fateful Number Which Dogged a Mail's Life By S. P. B. Mais IT wasn't until the reception clerk handed me the key of our room and said nonchalantly 131 that the idea came into my mind. Like most great ideas, it was simple, neat, and as sudden and obvious as a flash of lightning. Up to that moment I had been saying to myself over and over, She 's come back. I can't believe it. She ...

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INSIDE THE DE GAULLE TANGLE: A Frank Discussion of Many of the Reasons for the Estrangement Between the French ..

... FROM remarks made by the Prime Minister and reverberations across the Atlantic, one would imagine the trouble or hold-up in regard to General de Gaulle to be wrapped in mystery. Leader- writers demand that the truth, held secret, shall be revealed, and ask why there would be widespread pain if this happened. If riddle or enigma there be, enough has come out, in all conscience, to enable us ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1821 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs 

BATTLE SCENES from FRANCE: During the Advance to Cherbourg and in the Fighting at Tilly-sur-Seulles

... 'phe pictures on this page come from the 1 two ends of the battle line in France St. Sauveur lies in the base of the Cherbourg Peninsula, Tilly is a keypoint in the struggle for Caen, on the left flank' of the beachhead. Heavy fighting took place at both points before the Germans were ousted, and the pictures reproduced here indicate how severe the struggle must have been in both sectors AN ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW PICTURES from ITALY--and from Other Battlefronts Throughout the World

... ALLIED LEADERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN PUN AN ATTACK General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Allied C.-m-C. in the Mediterranean, looks on while Major-General Nathan W. Twining, Commanding the Fifteenth U.S. Air Force in that theatre of war, points to a map of Italy to outline a plan of attack ROCKET-FIRING BEAUFIGHTERS ATTACK ENEMY MERCHANTMEN IN THE AEGEAN The camou flaged vessel seen here was one ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 868 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MAKING an AIRSTRIP in FRANCE: How the Operation is Carried Out at Top Speed by an American Engineering Battalion

... Hollowing In the wake of the first wave of assault troops, an engineering battalion of the Ninth Air Force began the hazardous but extremely important task of building an emergency landing-strip in France itself, almost within hours of the first landings on the Normandy coast Working at a hot pace, the engineers were harassed at first by machine-gun fire and shelling from 88-m;n. guns they ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 399 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

INVASION TASKS--IN BRITAIN

... V II a INVASION GIRLS KEEP SUPPLIES ON THE MOVE On left An Army Recovery Depot where A.T.S. girls repair trucks for transportation overseas. On right An Army carrier is given a thorough overhaul by expert girl workers. Greasing and repairing vehicles of every description after damage in combat; convoying them to a port of embarkation cleaning and replacing tool-kits; testing wireless sets; ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 439 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs