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A NAVAL EPIC SURPRISING THE WORLD

... Shelled, Machine-Gunned. In addition to almost incessant bombing and machine-gan attacks on Dunkirk, the beaches, and the vessels operating off them, the port of Dunkirk and the shipping plying and fro were under frequent shell fire. Tnis was to some extent ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HIS DAY OUT PILOT-SERGEANT'S EXPLOITS

... down four enemy ’planes, trip to Margate a paddle steamer, parachute jump, and swim. Alter taking part in dog-fight oyer the Dunkirk area, his plane was hit. Shells smashed the instrument panel, the engine stopped and flamts appeared. He took to bis parachute ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HIS DAY OUT PILOT-SERGEANT'S EXPLOITS

... enemy 'planes, a trip to Margate in paddle steamer, a parachute jump, and a swim. After taking part in a dog-fight over the Dunkirk area, his plane was hit. Shells smashed the instrument panel, the engine stopped and flames appeared. He took to his parachute ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOW THE B.E.F. WAS SAVED EPIC STORY TOLD IN OFFICIAL REPORTS

... announced in broadcast on Sunday night that the bulk of the British Expeditionary Force had already been landed in England from Dunkirk. Thanks to the magnificent and untiring co-operation of the Allied navies and air forces,’’ he said, we have been able to ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Blank With Jerries

... whoso brother was shot down France few days ago, took on eight Junkers. He got two; one crashed into the smoking ruins of the Dunkirk oil tanks, the other tell in pieces into the sea. The Hcinkels tried to bomb tho Hudsons but without success. When the sky ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CAVENDISH BAPTIST CHURCH

... Hurricane pilot, disabled combat with Messerschmitt, had to land on the beach. Carrying his parachute, he walked 15 miles to Dunkirk, came to Folkestone in a paddlesteamer. rejoined his squadron and was out on patrol again yesterday. The biggest total of ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

B.E.F. MEN HOME

... announced to-day that many thousands of men from the BE F Flanders, with large numbers their French comrades, evacuated from Dunkirk, were landed in England yesterday. Speaking at Broadstairs on Thursday, Capt. H. H. Balfour, M.C., M.P., Under-Secretary of ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Gratitude

... stated “Evening Standard,” were still their post of duty, an improvised opena:r buffet, when more French troops evacuated from Dunkirk landed England Monday. , file women had worked throughout the week-end, serving sandwiches and coffee, until some of them ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HANET WITHOUT CHILDREN SIX THOUSAND SCHOLARS LEAVE

... clothes, passed trains containing men of the British Expeditionary Force, weary and unshaven, who had just got back from Dunkirk. At one station (reported Hilde Marchant the “Daily Express ) a child of 11 saw a party of French soldiers—unshaven, stumbling ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 1089 | Page: 4 | Tags: none