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... have foiled 11 efforts to capture Dunkirk; and enemy forces are now t0 concentrating on cutting off the French rearguard been covering the withdrawal to the coast. Part of this la has fought its way through to Dunkirk, but the t is still in great danger ...
... red flares. Near Dunkirk, the oil tanks were still blazing furiously. In the middle of the swept channel, we bumped some wreckage and fouled one of our propellers. We crept ahead on one engine until we reached the entrance to Dunkirk harbour. There we ...
... to-day's German High Command communique:— The whole region round Dunkirk, which is still in the hands of the enemy, is under constant and heavy artillery fire. The attack against Dunkirk from the west, the south, and the east is slowly making progress ...
... yesterday or last night The fortified area of Dunkirk. around which all the withdrawal operations we,re taking place, was continuing to resist solidly. It is now a kind of fortress, completely surrounded by water stretching for several kilometres like ...
... have reached the fortified area at Dunkirk and are taking part in its defence. German attacks, presumably intended to “sound” French defences V'e line of the Somme, have been renr' FRENCH REARGUARD REACHING DUNKIRK The withdrawal of Allied units to the ...
... coast to the northwest of it are in German hands. Adinkerke, west of Fumes, audGhyvelde, ten kilometres (six miles) east of Dunkirk, have been taken. “The number prisoners and the amount of booty also considerably increased yesterday. Two hundred guns of ...
... crossed in motor-boats to Dunkirk on Friday to carry troops from Dunkirk sands to destroyers and other vessels Home yesterday suffering from shock and exhaustion he told this story motor-boats taken across As we approached Dunkirk Roads German aircraft were ...
... corresponds to the strength of several divisions; (3) Tliat the British transport fleet off Dunkirk has been scattered or destroyed (4) That the fall of Dunkirk is to expected soon ; (5) That Marseilles and the most important French railway communications ...
... REARGUARD ACTION IS CONTINUING WITH THE SAME BITTERNESS AROUND DUNKIRK.” The Allied warships are pounding the Nazi hordes with their big guns and the R.A.F. are showering them with high explosive. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The inundations extending ...
... 100 FRENCH WARSHIPS AT DUNKIRK Paris, June 2 Some 100 French warships and more than 200 French merchant vessels of all kinds, ranging from converted liners to trawlers, have taken part in the defence of Dunkirk and the evacuation of the Allied forces ...
... but despite all the Nazi efforts ammunition and food needed for the defence of Dunkirk are being landed. The withdrawal of Allied units to the fortified positions of Dunkirk has continued in the most favourable conditions, he went on. Already large units ...
... the Lille region, and fighting fiercely, the Prioux army is slowly retiring in the direction of the entrenched camp of Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The inundations extending southwest and north-east of the entrenched camp are now ...