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was full of confidence about the future. The spokesman said that German units continue to move through the ..

... ief, is said to be entirely satisfied with the Allied armies taking pan in the battle. The Allies are holding Calais and Dunkirk firmly, it was stated by a French official source in Paris laA night. This source confirmed that ships of the British Navy ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 142 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

of tha Deflants was bit but was able to return home. From this machihe the gunner Jumped, apparently believing that

... the Nazis vanished. _ . Then the British squadron saw two formations of nine Henkel bombers Ithat were attempting to bomb Dunkirk. I but all their bombs fell into the sea. Later the squadron encountered a number of Messerschmitt 110 twinengine fighters ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FOILED SY FLOODS

... stubpork; clinging to the Flanders hills !It an effort to keep open the path to Sea. The floods immediately north and tout of Dunkirk—now an entrenched amp—have reached such a depth that Lii operations both by infantry and a!otorised units have been brought ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE NAVY'S PART

... THE NAVY'S PART. THE Admiralty account of how the withdrawal at sea was conducted off Dunkirk makes the heart leap with admiration for all concerned. The feat already surprises the world. It adds a special chapter of its own to :he epic of how these mixed ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

R.A.F.'s RECORD

... German Raids Over Southern France. In i„VVENTY-EIGHT Nazi bombers and fighters were destroyed or everely damaged over the Dunkirk beaches between dawn and - on Saturday, states an Air Ministry bulletin. sets a new day's record f r ~.or fighter pilots. ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 465 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

.dvouraol. annoe- for ~ our aviiMen lhaa employment of great numbers of :',•coanai•sance 'SOIL aircraft ere ..

... Dense fog over the Channel is giving cover to the British in their headlong flight. The last resistance offered around Dunkirk is restricted to a narrow area of a depth of about six miles, the commentary continues. Special artillery units of the German ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DESTROTInt NIT

... e are in German hands. The German Air Force bombed the communication line leading to Zeebrugge, N:e u port. Ostend, and Dunkirk as well as the ports and ships In the ports. An enemy destroyer was hit by a bomb between Calais and Dover. On the southern ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WILL FIGHT TO THE IND

... WILL FIGHT TO THE IND. The courses open to the Northern Army are painfully few. So long as Dunkirk an be held some. as Mr. Duff indie.ated to-night, may be extricated by sea. \ow that all responsibility to the 11- knaris on the left is at an end it may ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HEROES OF FLANDERS HAVE ARRIVED IN YORKSHIRE

... there one could observe a Tommy walking l around in steel helmet for the want of lighter headgear. These men have come from Dunkirk and Calais. Among them are many Yorkshire lads. and some of them have been fortunate enough to come to their home town. One ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PARIS NEXT?

... phase of their campaign in advance. Nor should they yet be in a strong position, after the exhaustive and exhausting drive to Dunkirk and other ports, to organise a big, thrust in another direction. But speculation is bound to spread as to the new big obj ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Severe Test For Allies' North Army. , Our Military Correspondent

... fairly be said until night, so long as the Allied Army in the north did not break, and while It was being supplied through Dunkirk, inflicting very heavy casualties OD the enemy, and fairly cheaply. In the matter of days it had a fair chance of being relieved ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CANNOT BE BRADFORD MEN I WITH B.E.F. Pleasure Steamers Sunk

... CANNOT BE BRADFORD MEN I WITH B.E.F. Pleasure Steamers Sunk. PLEASURE steamers are among the British craft lost in the Dunkirk evacuation (see Page 1). Details in regard to the ships men. %toned in the Admiralty communiqué are:— H.M.S. Keith (1,4011 tons) ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 5 | Tags: none