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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

Coast Towns Now In New Homes in Midlands

... evacuated from Dunkirk after being subjected to 61 air raids in 14 hours as they waited to embark, gave a Birmingham Gazette reporter this eye-witness account yesterday; Some 200 Marines were landed from a British destroyer at Dunkirk just as a formation ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 599 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE PRODUCTION BATTLE In the days when wars were concerned rather more with the ethics of chivalry than with the

... more tanks, more guns. The people of this country must work as never before.” The 8.E.F., still returning steadily from Dunkirk, have been compelled to leave behind them vast stores of their fighting equipment. Little of it will be of use to the enemy ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 276 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Leopold’s Defection

... main power, the power of their far more numerous air force, was thrown into the battle or concentrated on the beaches of Dunkirk. The enemy began to fire with cannon the beaches. They sowed magnetic ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 239 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The British Fleet

... how little this has affected the Allies’ command of the sea is abundantly shown by the great success of the withdrawal from Dunkirk. Signor Mussolini during his present contemplative silence is undoubtedly giving full weight to the arguments which have been ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 253 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FRENCH FIGHT TOWARDS SEA

... under Lord Gort, are bearing the brunt of the defence of these two fronts. German attacks south-westward from Bruges aimed at Dunkirk have encountered fierce resistance by the British on the Yser. It is to be noted in this respect that the British are defending ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 247 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

FRANCE IS FROUD OF THEM

... FRANCE IS FROUD OF THEM L Right’s French comrlc story of the .battle. It said:— or ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 242 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Men’s Undaunted Spirit

... for another duffing,” said one young soldier, who only a few months ago had been a clerk in a London office. got away from Dunkirk,” said one of the men. through a terrific hail of bombs and shells. All the time bombs were falling around us and bombers ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 237 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

A SOUVENIR

... Inn. who, with a large number of other Ola Laurentians, has been serving with Royal Artillery battery. All,” arriving in Dunkirk, swam fully-clothed to destroyer after several unsuccessful attempts to get aboard a boat, and now his mother has as a souvenir ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 508 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ONE PENNY Unkirk still held strongly

... rearguard action against the German hordes. Allied troops are continuing to hold out solidly, not only in the fortified area of Dunkirk, almost completely surrounded by flood waters, but also to the west of the Yser Canal, the French military spokesman stated ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1823 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Surrender Order To Army Against Ministers' Advice

... hardly succeeded their seniors, have already covered themselves with glory. “Surrendered Without Warning” was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French armies defended this port in the south and in the west; the Belgian Army in the north. “Our Faith ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 663 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MOST MATERIAL

... it can be taken for granted that the greater part of it will be destroyed so that it will be of no use to the enemy. Off Dunkirk powerful Allied fleet taking part in the defence of the area in landing supplies and in the work of evacuation. British and ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 298 | Page: 8 | Tags: none