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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... to Dunkirk to the Germans , the Allied Coinmand has never lost its coolness for a moment . The watchword immediately went out : — The British and French go on fightina . The Belgian Army ' s task had been to cefenfl the sector' north of Dunkirk , -while ...
... mechanised weapons and in the teeth of constant attack from the air . The line of withdrawal is seemingly to the . coast at Dunkirk . The most reassuring feature is the one to be expected—that the Allied forces are making a gallant resistance , their line ...
... detained a large number of the enemyand was of invaluable assistance to the main body of the B . E . F . in its withdrawal on Dunkirk . This action will count among : the most heroic deeds in the annals of the British Army . ...