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FRENCH MARINES IN DUNKIRK

... was being carried out at the price i su pplies for the fortified camp of Dunkirk and » action anc * over^ea d land and naval planes are per- V otle air ? * nes and e a^one a Dunkirk yesterday, a formation of e withcj an^s down twenty-two enemy machines ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 737 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

R.A.F. Bring Down 22 Nazis Without Loss in Fight Off Dunkirk

... R.A.F. Bring Down 22 Nazis Without Loss in Fight Off Dunkirk IN a terrific air battle over the French coast near Dunkirk last night a formation of Hurricanes and Defiants shot down twenty-two of a large force of German bombers and fighters. All the R ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 447 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRITISH HEROES AT CALAIS

... region and fighting fiercely, the Prioux Army is, however, slowly retiring in the direction of the entreffched camp of Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently, since the inundations extending south-west and north-east of the entrenched camn ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 585 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZI PLANES OFF S.E. COAST

... were given. All firing was out at sea. There was also heavy gunfire on the other side of the Channel in the direction of Dunkirk, where great flashes could be seen bursting in the sky. ...

Published: Monday 20 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Hitler Sends Armada of 1000 Bombers

... civilian centres. The talc is still incomplete, but it is known that among the places attacked were Bethune, Choques, Lens Dunkirk, Nancy, Hazebrouck, Calais, Abbeville, Doulens, and Albert Numerous civilian casualties arc known to have occurred although ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GOTTHROUGH AFTER TANK BATTLE

... two divisions, has blasted its way out of the German trap in Flanders by means of a furious tank battle, and has reached Dunkirk, a French military authority stated Paris last night. The remainder of their comrades are following, it was stated. It had ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DAY BY DAY WAR TALKS

... and French. The Allies are withdrawing steadily towards the coast, and somewhere in the coastal region around Calais and Dunkirk —in places where the British won laurels in the last war valiant stand is being made. @ ® The Allied troops have something ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 580 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DAY BY DAY WAR TALKS

... trench coasts—and through those ports we shall send fresh army to the aid of our French a ' How long present fighting around Dunkirk will continue I cannot say. but I do know there will be surrender. General Gort and General will withdraw steadily and resolutely ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 562 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIES DEFY FORTY NAZI DIVISIONS

... Command to have been taken prisoner, along with other high French officers, two divisions of this heroic army had arrived in Dunkirk last night. Faced with the resistance of the finest body of men the world will ever know, the Germans have been wreaking their ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

'TREACHEROUS ACT' OF KING LEOPOLD

... 8.E.F., and some French divisions. This group of three armies was commanded by General Blanchard. It was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French Armies defended this port in the South and in the West, the Belgian Army in the North. The Belgian ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 637 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Canals Will Help Our Defence

... miles from Saint Omer, that is on the flank of the German motorised troops which attacked Calais and attempted to approach Dunkirk. All Allied progress towards the south-west this region could not fail to produce a repercussion on the axis of the German ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIES FIGHT ON UNDISMAYED

... French planes dr. engaged dropping what 6 as curtains of bombs in Protect the Allied army -in 'h. . it is stated, are still 8 Dunkirk. q y 's (ferman High Command Ue stated: . . • * I .'battle in Flanders and Artois \ e its climax. The keen attacks rTI troops ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 819 | Page: 1 | Tags: none