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... this communique stated that some of the transports sunk were of more than 15,000 tons. It also claimed that the sluices in Dunkirk harbour had been destroyed and the harbour basin destroyed. ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 347 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HEROIC ACTION REFUSAL TO SURRENDER

... it contained large number of the enemy and was of invaluable assistance to the main body of the B.E.F. in its withdrawal Dunkirk. This action will count among the most heroic deeds in the annals of the British Army.” ” Held on Grimly Further details of ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 422 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A.T.S. Girls Rescued

... the men were still wearing steel helmets camouflaged with netting and sacking, or mud and sand stained. “We got away from Dunkirk,” said one party, through a terrific hail of bombs and shells. All the time bombs were falling around us and bombers sweeping ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 486 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Skill and Daring of Evacuation OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS First official news of the evacuation of troops of the ..

... number of the enemy and was of invaluable assistance to the main body of the British Expeditionary Force in its withdrawal on Dunkirk. This action will count among the most heroic deeds in the annals of the British Army. Women ticket clerks for the London ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 525 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ftRHE DESTROYERS LOST IK> the operations

... surrender, this force detained a t of the enemy and so gave invaluable assistance niain body of the B.E.F. in its withdrawal on Dunkirk. Oerman News Agency announces that General Prioux, the First French Army, together with many other reil ch officers, has been ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1217 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TIRED, HUNGRY, BUT MORALE UNBROKEN

... HUNGRY, BUT MORALE UNBROKEN MORE stories of the ordeals of the B.E.F. men, both before and during their evacuation from Dunkirk, and of the great work of the R.A.F. and Navy, wdiich made their escape possible, were told as more men, tired and hungry ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1038 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

domitable Spirit of the Homecoming B.E.F. Y AND HUNGRY, STILL SMILING ,NDED IN EVERY KIND OF BOAT

... tremendous toll of German planes. . Another survivor commented: I never expected to get back to England alive. (Aerial attacks on Dunkirk have cost the Germans dear. The heavy toll taken by Allied aircraft and antiaircraft guns yesterday is estimated at 75 planes ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1184 | Page: 5 | Tags: none