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DUNKIRK

... important section of General Prioux’s army has net yet been able to reach tha Dunkirk area, and it la admitted that the position of these men Is becoming more and more difficult. Dunkirk from the cea. have been carrying out extensive bombardments from the air ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 556 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NOT QUITE TO DUNKIRK

... NOT QUITE TO DUNKIRK The Prime Minister said this scythe stroke almos- reached Dunkirk —but not quite. THE RIFLE BRIGADE. THE 60th RIFLES, AND THE QUEEN VICTORIAS RIFLES, WITH BATTALION OF BRITISH TANIfS AND 1,000 FRENCHMEN IN ALL 4,000 STRONG DEFENDED ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RELENTLESS AIR BATTLES OVER DUNKIRK

... RELENTLESS AIR BATTLES OVER DUNKIRK (pHE air battle over Dunkirk beaches began again at dawn to-day. Soon R.A.F. fighter patrols had shot down 14 Nazi fighters and had seriously damaged five more. All yesterday this battle in the skies raged unceasingly ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RETREAT TO COAST GOES ON NAVAL GUNS GUARD DUNKIRK

... RETREAT TO COAST GOES ON NAVAL GUNS GUARD DUNKIRK FIGHTING in Flanders reached rare pitch of violence during the night, declared the French military spokesman, when the Germans threw into the battle the full weight of forty divisions—more than a million ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZI AIR FORCE UNABLE TO SLOW DOWN DUNKIRK DEPARTURES

... NAZI AIR FORCE UNABLE TO SLOW DOWN DUNKIRK DEPARTURES RESPITE furious attempts by the German Air Force and artillery bombardment from lone ranee, the embarkation of Allied troops from Dunkirk has gone on at an accelerated speed. j In the air battles the ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 620 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK’S AIRMAN DID FIRST “SOLO” IN BATTLE (Pbom oua own ooai

... DUNKIRK’S AIRMAN DID FIRST “SOLO” IN BATTLE (Pbom oua own ooai i, A fils, Friday. •A TERRIFYING adventure in the air that ended with promotion for a second lieutenant and award the Cross the Legion Honour told in the French Press. A pilot, with an observer ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FRENCH FIGHTING CLEAR

... literally banned the air over Dunkirk to German 'planeo. A second force of General Prloux’s army has arrived in the region the hills and is trying to cut its way across, while the large remnants are a little way behind. At Dunkirk the combined Allied air forces ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 581 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMANS “ CORUNNA LINE” VERY LARGE ALLIED ARMY ALREADY OFF

... French and British troops from Dunkirk goes on. Figures of evacuation are not permissible but it is stated that they are very large. Allied troops are continuing to hold out solidly, not only in the fortified area of Dunkirk, almost completely surrounded ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

8.E.F., INTACT, ARE WITHDRAWING TO COAST

... 8.E.F., INTACT, ARE WITHDRAWING TO COAST DUNKIRK AND CALAIS, STILL HELD THE B.E.F. ARE STILL INTACT TOGETHER, AND HAVE WITHDRAWN MILES TOWARDS THE COAST. UP TO LAST NIGHT THE FRENCH STILL HELD CALAIS. DUNKIRK HAS BEEN HEAVILY BOMBED, BUT IS NOT YET DIRECTLY ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BY OUR MILITARY CORRESPONDENT

... MILITARY CORRESPONDENT ITLKK missed the Channel boat, even if he “caught the ’bus.” The evacuation from Dunkirk is already a miraculous success. Off Dunkirk the great gale blew up which scattered the Spanish Armada. This time the wind fell, permitting ferry ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

More Fantastic

... B.E.F. on both sides of Dunkirk, which is meeting with stubborn resistance in very difficult terrain, is making good progress. “Despite the bad weather our air force made further successful attacks yesterday on troops at Dunkirk, and intervened in protection ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CHURCH MAN TELLS OF

... Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who arrived at his home, 21, Blackburnj road. Church, yesterday, alter being I withdrawn from Dunkirk with other men of the 8.E.P.. told how German motor cyclists machine Rtinned helpless refugees streaming along the roads. ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 5 | Tags: none