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HOW GERMAN MARAUDERS SLIP THROUGH

... badly damaged by bombs. The German Air Force also successfully bombed the ports of Dunkirk and Dover. German high-speed boats torpedoed and sank an enemy destroyer off Dunkirk. In general, the activity of the Air Forces on both sides was limited by weather ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 785 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

92nd BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED

... Shakespeare, of 13, Sun-street, was the guest of honour at a party held Rowditch Branch of the Women Citizens' Association at the Dunkirk Chapel, Derby, yesterday afternoon. The party was held to celebrate her birthday, which is on Friday, and it was attended ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TENDERS CTTT OP NOTTINOHAM EDOCATIO*

... Derhj-rd*d EXTERNAL Bath-itrect Council School. DuUtU Roll Council School. Uvton-drUr cottnmoro Council School. Cotunaorc-rood. Dunkirk Council School. Mentpcllcr-rond. Forater-tlrctt Council School. Radford. Havdn road Infants' Council School, Burnham street ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 282 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GUNFIRE HEARD

... THE sound of gunfire was heard early today from the South. East Coast, coming apparently from the direction of Calais or Dunkirk. It was heard at intervals over a period of about two hours, and at times was very rapid. There were also heavy detonations ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 387 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMANY'S SWEEPING CLAIMS

... enemy planes were shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Two merchant ships of 5,000 and 2,000 tons were sunk between Calais and Dunkirk by bombs. A German U-boat sank enemy submarine and a German armed speed-boat sank an enemy destroyer. The situation in ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... and on aea off Dunkirk and Otitcnd warahlna and 16 tranaport inciuains:aonia oioer 15000- intehaire ooncenlrlb attack- continued rturty-one more received uirertnits were heavily ere immobilised and otnera on The sluices In Dunkirk Harbour were completely ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2309 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Our Army and Air Force/’ Claims Berlin

... will be a French reply, and we must wait for this.” The German Press stated that German planes had bombed Zeebrngge, Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne, and admitted strong Allied resistance at Ghent and along the River Scheldt. ; The Germans are carrying ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 474 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

London Letter

... frontier rone and one cannot think that France wants its northern province wrecked again. Moreover, the strategic railway from Dunkirk to Metz, which the Boches found useful in the last war for lateral communication, would be denied to the Allies if the main ...

Published: Thursday 16 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 496 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

7,000 Parachutists Were Killed in Holland

... stated that some indication of the nature this movement may be given to-day. Although King Leopold’s action opened the road to Dunkirk to the Germans, the Allied command has never lost its coolness for a moment. The watchword immediately went out: “The British ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 515 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

I.A.F. Pilot’s Day Out Shot Down Four Planes-Baled Out and Swam TiU Picked Up A flfhttr pilot on R.A.F. ktfitor

... itoamor and landed at Marge::. The sergeant's report on the event? reads; I was irr a formation of nine aircraft patrolling Dunkirk. We sighted nine Messerschmitt 109 fighter? and dog light ensued. A Messerschmitt 109 started climbing away from me. 1 opened ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 355 | Page: 5 | Tags: none