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R.A.F. ATTACKS GO ON FROM DAWN TO DUSK

... destroyed or seriously damaged. Sixteen of our fighters are reported missing. “At dawn this morning our fighter patrols over Dunkirk shot down 10 enemy fighters with the loss of one of our aircraft. Naval aircraft later B.E.F. Men Still Pouring Back To England ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Sports Argus
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1093 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

arrival from Flanders. HEROIC RETREAT

... SHINING THING” AMERICAN TRIBUTE TO FLANDERS ACHIEVEMENT New York, Saturday. “So long as the English tongue survives the word Dunkirk will be spoken with reverence.” A leading article in the “ New York Times,” paying this tribute to-day, adds: “ The rags and ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

H LONDON

... and still offer resistance at a ’his resistance will have a short time. against the rest of the the loop between Fumes, of Dunkirk is proceedis only a few miles deep, been flooded. The enemy ;re stubbornly, the aim le as many soldiers as ms of ships, without ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 190 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

CLAIM TO HAVE CAPTURED

... has broken down. The British Army, which is concentrated in the area of Dixmude, Armentiers, Bailleul and Bergues, west of Dunkirk is facing complete destruction by our concentric attacks. “In swift push through Flanders German forces marched through Bruges ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 195 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

OF BIG CONTINGENTS

... stories of undaunted resistance to the enemy in face of heavy odds were told by the kome-coming soldiers. Troops embarked at Dunkirk early yesterday said they were subjected to heavy shell-fire from long-range German guns. ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 192 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Allies’ Desperate Drive to The Coast

... resolution, the British and French armies in the North are making a desperate bid to drive their way through to the coast. Dunkirk, the principal French port, ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

.■'ITMARE IRney

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Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 469 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The Home-Coming

... fresh hope for the orderly and unbroken withdrawal of the B.E.F. in the splendid joint Anglo-French Naval cover provided off Dunkirk. Even the Italian Press has to pay reluctant tribute to the matchless tenacity of our troops, and our marines are now adding ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 227 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CLAIM French Successes in Somme Fighting

... between Allied and enemy units, which are closely intermingled. Up to last night French units still held out in Calais, and Dunkirk has been heavily bombed, but the town is not directly threatened. The official military spokesman said to-day that the Germans ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 270 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMANS

... in three them I was bombed. On our last night in Holland were bombed; Zeehrugg© (Belgium) we slept through air raid and in Dunkirk we were bombed again. Only when back in England did I have an undisturbed night. At Ostend watched German planes sweep down ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 204 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Massed Enemy Attacks

... from Saint Omcr; that is to say, on the flank of the German motorised troops which attacked Calais and attempted to approach Dunkirk. North of Calais, particularly in the direction of Gravelines, the country is covered by a dense network of canals, which ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 242 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

169 Destroyed in Week-end

... in Week-end Reports so far received show that to their achievement of 78 German planes destroyed or severely damaged over Dunkirk beaches Saturday, R.A.F. fighter pilots jesterday added 35 enemy aircraft and probably a further six. On Friday they accounted ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 197 | Page: 7 | Tags: none