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... DUNKIRK ATTACK GERMANS CLAIM SINKING OF . ALLIED SHIPS Sweeping claims to have inflicted damage at Dunkirk on Allied naval units were made in a special communique issued by the German High Command to-day The communique stated: | “Yesterday evening and ...
... ALLIED TROOPS FALLING BACK ON COAST Furious Rearguard Actions CEASELESS . ENEMY ATTACKS French Navy Defend Dunkirk While the French Navy firmly Dunkirk open for them , the British 1 Allies , were last night backing step towards the coast . Chosen units were ...
... 'PLANES IN ONE FIGHT 6 . R . A . F . Rout Enemy in Terrific Battle Over Dunkirk NO BRITISH CASUALTIES GERMAN TERROR TACTICS In a terrific air battle over the French coast near Dunkirk last night , a formation of Hurricanes and Defiants shot down 22 of ...
... magnetic mine and sank, and he, after swimming for some time, was the only one to be rescued, The beaches and sand dunes around Dunkirk have been alive with troops for the past three days waiting to be evacuated and being evacuated. At more and more frequent ...
... the French Medical Corps on the way in which Allied iroops are being taken off ai Dunkirk . The officer , himself a member of the Northern Army who ivas embarked at , Dunkirk and landed at another French ' port , expressed the utmost admiration at the efficiency ...
... broken in a short time. : ; “The attack against the rest of the British Army in the loop between Furnes, Bergues, and west of Dunkirk is proceeding. The loop is only a few miles deep, is flat, and has been flooded. The enemy is resisting here stubbornly, the ...
... only 25 miles wide at its widest point . German troops advancing in , Northern Flanders towards Dunkirk were stated to have reached the River Yser . Dunkirk the agency claimed , is now within the range of the German heavy artillery , and its harbour ...
... while on the other side of the Channel their remaining comrades and French Allies fought a terrific rearguard battle to hold Dunkirk and the coast until withdrawal is complete . The desperate rearguard action is still going on . The men who have returned ...
... - and it is on the Yser that British troops are now endeavouring to prevent the Germans from advancing along the coast to Dunkirk , which is the only base left to them on which to withdraw . A small British force was sent last week to hold Calais and to ...
... of the Flanders plain , dotted with windmills and lines of poplars , and divided up with canals and ditches as far as Dunkirk . Dunkirk itself is now an entrenched campand is almost inaccessible from the east , whence it can be reached only by a narrow ...
... ArsteuilO l ^ onUW'W Gaiwes The two dotted lines indicate the sides of the corridor through which the Allied withdrawal to Dunkirk is being carried out . The Germans are striving to close its entrance between Mounts Cassel and Kcznmel . Achiet ...
... and troop transports , which were to bring home the remainder o £ the beaten B . E . F . in the harbour and on the sea off Dunkirk and Ostend . , All branches of the Services joined in the attack , which was ' directed against more than 60 ships . Three ...