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... it can be taken for granted that the greater part of it will be destroyed so that it will be of no use to the enemy. Off Dunkirk powerful Allied fleet taking part in the defence of the area in landing supplies and in the work of evacuation. British and ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 298 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

INDUSTRY

... many workers have been sent to prison for minor offences, including unpunctuality. GERMANS MAY LAND IN GREAT AIR BATTLE NEAR DUNKIRK 22 GERMAN PLANES ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 259 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

VERY HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES

... sectors between Allied and enemy units which are closely intermingled. Up to last night French units still held out in Calais. Dunkirk has been heavily bombed but the town is not directly threatened. This morning's French official communique says:— Our troops ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 301 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

JLLE FALLS ATTER WAY AS TO ALLIES COAST THIS IS THE FRONT ft.F. Fighting Every Inch: Warships folding n t th P t

... positions of d coast north-east Skje d. received from its to *L er cease fire, thus kV J'nl ® en emy the road to nes and to Dunkirk. our troops, under the Vi: eneral Blanchard and 5 in close collaboration Army under Lord ® dto face an increased •8 in these ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1117 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Germans Claim Armoured Car Set Fire to Warships

... The Air Fuice attacked the ports on the Belgian and French coasts which are still in the hands of the enemy. The docks of Dunkirk were set on tire. “On the South Front no events of importance. The attacks of the Air Force were directed against aerodromes ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 284 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Scribbled Telegrams –

... the men were still wearing steel helmets camouflaged with netting and sacking. or mud and sand-stained. We got away from Dunkirk. said one party, through a terrific hail of bombs and shells. All the time bombs were falling around us and bombers sweeping ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 262 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NUNEATON MAN'S ORDEAL IN BOULOGNE Mak LOON+ Official

... Brother of the Ceodfrai de Bouillon Lc.dge Of Freemasons, under the English Rights. _ When lie left Boulogne temporarily for Dunkirk in 18 the Boulogne Telegramme paid a striking tribute to his work for ex- Service men and to his popularity among French ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Nuneaton Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SOME DAYS

... deliveries of machinery from Germany to Russia —Exchange. J POST, MONDAY, BERLIN ADMITS TOUGH RESISTANCE ZEEBRUGGE, OSTEND AND DUNKIRK BOMBED CLAIM TO HAVE CAPTURED CALAIS Berlin, May The German High Command issued the following announcement to-night:— After ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1137 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Capped armies fight towards coast

... of exceptional intensity. a^S re P or l s P ers t s the claim that the French are still out in Calais and emphasise that Dunkirk is firmly held fii e d naval forces. ills Leopold of the Belgians is reported to have returned to 4 Palace in Brussels. The ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1129 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Record “ Bag ” of Enemy Planes

... Record “ Bag ” of Enemy Planes Hundreds of German planes are reported to have taken part in the aerial attacks on Dunkirk to-day, but the combined “bag” the Allied forces and anti-aircraft defences is described in military circles here as “record.” The ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 300 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

POST, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940

... had been vitally hit, ” baled out ” over .Belgium Otherwise, every British machine, pilot and gunner returned safelv. Over Dunkirk, the Defiants sighted seven Messerschmitt 109’s. They immediate) v attacked, and one of the Messerschmitts was shot down. ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1092 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BLEW UP NEW DESTROYER

... them I was bombed On our last night in Holland we were bombed. In Zeebrugge. Belgium, we slept through an air raid, and in Dunkirk we were bombed again Only when back in England did I have an undisturbed night. ' Ostend we watched German ’planes sweep down ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 378 | Page: 10 | Tags: none