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Calais—Dunkirk Air Battle:

... Calais—Dunkirk Air Battle: Spitfires' Triumph• In the four hours between 5.30 and Twenty blesserschnigit 1101 were cm. yesterday R.A.F. squadrons surprised 17.00011. above Calais. @bat down at least 20 German bombers Approaching from the sun British ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

This Hitler DUNKIRK LINE GREAT EVACUATION

... This Hitler DUNKIRK LINE GREAT EVACUATION CONTINUES. T HIS is the latest position at Dunkirk, according to the most recent arrivals who reached a South-East port after leaving Dunkirk yesterday afternoon — The line is being held by several thousand fighting ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 614 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WEST RIDING HEROES OF DUNKIRK EPIC. Bradford

... WEST RIDING HEROES OF DUNKIRK EPIC. Bradford Funeral Of Perth Soldier. A QUIET and simple funeral service at the graveside with no mourners marked Bradford's first burial of a soldier who has died from wounds he received in the present war. The soldier ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 382 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MANY CLAIMS

... apparently corresponds to the strength of several divisions. that Use British transport fleet off Dunkirk has been scattered or destroyed. ' The fall of Dunkirk is to he expilip loos : Press I siaila4 War ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Allies Hit Back

... ferocity our positions around Dunkirk, ahere they encountered vigorous restse and unceasing counter-attacks our troops. The French Navy. like the British Navy, is co-operating under enemy fire in the defence of Dunkirk, and successfully proceeded with ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WOUNDED MAWS ESCAPE

... some other B.E.F. men, and said. lails. if we walk the seven miles to Dunkirk, we can get a boat. Can we do It? Another of the fellows said he was wounded in both hands at Dunkirk during a heavy aerial bombardment. lie ran on board a transport and did ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Scenes Of The Great THEY NEVER GAVE WAY

... Scenes Of The Great THEY NEVER GAVE WAY. kt S iesterday a British infantry brigade nit., embarked from the beach north of Dunkirk. It had been in the midst of the fighting in Flanders from start to finish, for it was among the troops which led the adsanee ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Co ON FIGHTING

... road to Dunkirk to the liermans, the Allied Command has never lost its coolness for a moment., The watchword immediately went out, The British and French go on fighting. The Belgian Army's task had been to defend the sector north of Dunkirk, while the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

B.E.F. FIGMENT' G REARGUARD ACrITONS. LLIED troops were fighting stubbornly last night in Northern France in a ..

... desperate bid to cut through German concentrations to the coast, while Allied naval forces firmly held the fortified area of Dunkirk, it is stated in Paris. British and French units were also still in possession of a part of Calais earlier in the evening ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AT VINT RIDGE

... AT VINT RIDGE. I escaped everything until I got to Dunkirk, and then they got me—in the leg. Private Cowley, of Birmingham, was brief but comprehensive. We came up against the Germans at Virny Ridge. and the first day we held them, although we only ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FRENCH WAR COMMUNIQUE. PARIS. Wednesday

... of Ostend. received from its King the order to cease fire, thus opening to the enemy the road to Ypres. to Fumes. and to Dunkirk. VERY HARD FIGHTINC. Since then our troops. under the command of General Blanchard and General Prioux. in close collaboration ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: 1 | Tags: none