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The INHUMAN ATROCITIES OF THE NAZIS

... For years now before and since the opening of the war people in the I free countries of the world have doubted many of the atrocity stories brought out of Germany by anti-Nazis. Some have thought them lies, others have thought them gross exaggerations. The pictures reproduced here have been taken by Allied photographers accompanying our armies in Germany, and they have been officially circu ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1262 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NAVAL WAR

... Jhe incident depicted in the drawing above occurred a few week-ends ago. On two successive nights, the enemy sent out strong forces of E-boats. On both occasions they were intercepted. First contact was made by a Wellington of R.A.F. Coastal Command. In the early hours of the follow ing morning, the enemy was engaged by a British destroyer and frigate. A fierce action then ensued, during which ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 683 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

TANKS and FOOT-SLOGGERS MOVE UP TOGETHER

... The diagram-drawing reproduced above has been made to illus trate the co-operation between tanks and infantry which has marked the British advance into Germany at those stages where definite enemy resistance has been anticipated. The column of infantry plods phlegmatically forward the men carry all sorts of light equipment to meet the diverse situations which may lie ahead rifles, pistols, ...

The WRECK of the TIRPITZ The V 2 ROCKET TRAIN

... More than four months after the great German battleship Tirpitz was sunk in the Tromso Fiord, in Norway, by 12,000-lb. bombs launched from Lan caster of R.A.F. Bomber Command, vertical and oblique reconnaissance photographs of her wreck were secured on March 22. The pictures show that much of the hull of the capsized battleship is covered with snow, which has been only partially cleared away ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 393 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The WRECKING of the REICH: The Obliteration of German Cities And the Work of Allied Bombers in Norway and Italy

... s the Allied ground forces advance into the heart of Germany they are seeing more and more evidence of the devastation and destruction wrought by our bombers among import ant enemy towns and indus trial and communications centres, which have in many cases been almost com pletely obliterated The three R.A.F. recon naissance photographs repro- duced here are only a few out of many such. Wherever ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 820 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Maps  Photographs 

WHAT'S GOING ON ABROAD: News-Pictures from the Continent and Africa

... A DANISH RESISTANCE TRIBUTE TO R.A.F. PILOTS A memorial is erected in a forest near Copenhagen. In a quiet clearing to the north of Copenhagen, members of the Danish Resistance Movement have erected a memorial stone as a tribute to the crew of an R.A.F. Mosquito aircraft which crashed there in September 1944 Flight-Lieut. R. H. Thomas, of Saskatchewan, and Flying Officer G. J. Allin, of ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1261 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOW THE WEATHER FORECASTS ARE MADE

... The pictures reproduced on this page, show some of the work of the Meteorological Organisation of the Air Ministry including the Central Fore casting Station where weather informa tion is gathered and transmitted to stations of the R.A.F. and other Services. They also show the working of the radio-sonde apparatus, the wonderful new invention whereby the secrets of the upper air are revealed ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 528 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 18 August 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 25 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

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THE NEW LABOUR GOVERNMENT: A Group Showing All the Chief Ministers of Mr. Attlee's Administration

... mmmn n TAKEN IN THE GARDEN AT NO. 10 DOWNING STREET ministers of the new cabinet, who will administer the affairs OF THE STATE FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. This is one of a number of pictures taken during a photographic call last week. Under-Secretaries are not included in the group On left- SOME OF THI PRINCIPAL MINISTERS, in a specially-posed group In front Lord Addison, Lord Jowitt, Sir ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 551 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs