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Published: Saturday 08 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 126 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... THE ROCKET SHIP AND ITS FORMIDABLE EQUIPMENT--THE OVERWHELMING ALLIED WEAPON USED IN EVERY INVASION IN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC SINCE ANZIO REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME. This photograph has just been released by the U.S. Navy Department it shows how the rocket equipment is installed on the deck of a special landing craft To gain a foothold on the strongly-defended coast of Europe, the rocket ship ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 213 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ENEMY SECRETS

... Secrets of the work carried out by the R.A.F. in their almost uncanny photographic reconnais sance flights were revealed a few days ago when, for the first time, British journalists visited the R.A.F. Stations at Benson and Medmenham-- nerve centres of the camera war. At Benson, headquarters of No. 106 Group, which was responsible for vitally important photographic reconnaissances, the Air ...

THE JAPANESE SURRENDER--II

... After the vilest treatment at the hands of the Japs during their four years of internment, relief was speedily brought to the British prisoners on the island of Singapore. Almost before the surrender formalities had been completed, plans had been put into execution for the dropping of medical relief teams by parachute. In the drawing by Mr. Roland Davies given above, the island, with its great ...

The WHOLESALE SURRENDERS: Throughout the Eastern Hemisphere

... THE GREAT MOMENT ON BOARD THE U.S.S. MISSOURI On behalf of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, General Yoshira Umaza signs the surrender document. Standing in front of him is Lieut.-General Richard K. Sutherland, Chief of Staff. General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander, stands by the microphone on the left CHARTING TOKYO BAY for the entry of the Allied Fleet: A conference on ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 638 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE BIG LINERS COME BACK: And a Little Ship Braves the Wide Atlantic

... Among the many merchant ships which have been doing wartime jobs are the armed merchant cruisers. These will probably be the first to return to their normal peace time business of cargo and passenger-carrying. To reconvert these after six years of war is no light task. To remove the guns and gun positions is comparatively easy, but this is not all. Much internal structural work has to be done. ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 412 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The FASTEST JET-PLANE in the WORLD: Two Views of the New De Havilland Vampire

... HThe new Vampire, of which two pictures just released by the Air Ministry are given here, is believed to be the fastest jet-propelled plane in production in the world to-day it was the first in Great Britain or America to exceed by a handsome margin 500 m.p.h. in level flight, which it did in the spring of 1944. The aircraft is of all-metal con struction except the cockpit, which is of all ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALL IN THE WEEK'S NEWS

... . MRS. ERNEST BEVIN, wife of the new Foreign Secretary, and MISS BEVIN attended the gala premiere of 44 A Bell for Adano in aid of the National Association of Training Corps for Girls. From this point of vantage, wives of cricketers watched the England v. Australia Test match in Manchester. Our group includes MRS. J. WORKMAN, MRS. S. SISMEY, MRS. J. PARKINSON, MRS. D. WRIGHT and- MRS. W. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HAMPSHIRE DOWNS

... THE WORLD'S DUAL PURPOSE SHEEP FOR ARABLE LAND OR PASTURE LAND THE FINEST WOOL AND MUTTON FOR INFORMATION SECRETARY, 49, CANAL, SALISBURY ...