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... and troop transports , which were to bring home the remainder o £ the beaten B . E . F . in the harbour and on the sea off Dunkirk and Ostend . , All branches of the Services joined in the attack , which was ' directed against more than 60 ships . Three ...
... to Dunkirk to the Germans , the Allied Coinmand has never lost its coolness for a moment . The watchword immediately went out : — The British and French go on fightina . The Belgian Army ' s task had been to cefenfl the sector' north of Dunkirk , -while ...
... mechanised weapons and in the teeth of constant attack from the air . The line of withdrawal is seemingly to the . coast at Dunkirk . The most reassuring feature is the one to be expected—that the Allied forces are making a gallant resistance , their line ...
... badly damaged by bombs . The German Air Force also successfully bombed the ports Dunkirk and Dover . German high speed boats torpedoed and sank an enemy destroyer off Dunkirk . In general , the activity o £ the Air Forces on both sides was limited by weather ...
... ON OTHER PAGES Page KEWS SUMMARY . A big air battle was fought over the French , coast between Calais and Dunkirk r 7 The destroyer Wessex has been sunk as the result of air attacks off the French coast , and . the minesweeper Charles Boyes has been sunk ...
... emphasised last night that Calais remained in the possession of the Allies . French military quarters stated that Calais , Dunkirk , Ostend , and Zeebrugge were solidly held by the Allies . Armoured German units had succeeded in penetrating into the town ...
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... detained a large number of the enemyand was of invaluable assistance to the main body of the B . E . F . in its withdrawal on Dunkirk . This action will count among : the most heroic deeds in the annals of the British Army . ...
... Admiralty ( says the Press Association from Paris ) the number of Allied warships damaged or sunk by German air attack off Dunkirk is relatively very small . Regarding German claims on this subject a spokesman of the French High Command said last night ...
... civilian centres The tale is still incompletebut it is known that among the places attacked were Bethune . Choques . Lens , Dunkirk , Nancy , Hazebrouck . Calais . Abbeville Doulans and Albert . Numerous civilian casualties are known to have occurred although ...
... the Germans vanished . Then the British squadron saw two formations of nine Heinkel bombers that were attempting to bomb Dunkirk , but all their bombs fell into the sea . Later the squadron encountered a number o £ Messerschmitt 110 twin-engine fightsi'B ...