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... deadly peril. The retreat to Dunkirk will be recorded in history with such memorable achievements as the march of Xenophon's Ten Thousand and the march of Sir John Moore's army to Corunna in 1809. The flooding of areas near Dunkirk has been of considerable ...
... John Kelly, Ltd.. the Belfast coal importers. The master is Captain David Ivor, a Newry man. On May 24 when steaming off Dunkirk it was attacked by a German bomber, and a salvo of bombs was dropped in the sea around it. But masterly seamanship saved it ...
... destroyed or seriously damaged. Sixteen of our fighters are reported missing. At dawn this morning our fighter patrols over Dunkirk shot down 10 enemy fighters with the loss of one of our aircraft. Naval aircraft later bombed and sank an enemy torpedo boat ...
... increased will lose the war. ANIMALS' PITIFUL PLIGHT ON DUNKIRK BEACHES. SOME MAD WITH HUNGER. 120 SMUGGLED DOGS DESTROYED. Of all the tragic episodes in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk perhaps none has been more poignant than the pathetic attempts ...
... without tears rising to their eyes. How different has been the tempo of the episode which will close with the embarkation at Dunkirk! From the opening scene of the swift advance to the foremost positions occupied by the B.E.F. only three short weeks have ...
... CYCLIST. 81 LIVES WERE AT STAKE. STORY OF DUNKIRK EXPLOIT. Geo. Brockerton, famous Ulster racing motorcyclist, and now a soldier in the British Army, has been earning fame of a different kind —as a hero of Dunkirk. A few days ago a letter appeared in a London ...
... were going to see some active service after so many months of waiting. Anyhow they were all in good fettie. On arrival at Dunkirk the unit, which had sustained a number of casualties, due to bombing, was directed by Royal Marines to a large beach near ...
... Campeitown (Argyll) man who took part in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders. My ship was among the first to reach Dunkirk to begin the evacuation. he said. The sea close in shore was black with soldiers standing up to their waists in water. We ...
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... R.A.F. BEAT NAZI AIR FORCE (By arrangement with Daily Telegraph.) THE FULL DRAMATIC STORY OF THE DUNKIRK EVACUATION, A MIRACLE OF DELIVERANCE, FOLLOWING A COLOSSAL MILITARY DEFEAT, WAS RELATED BY THE PRIME MINISTER TO A TENSELY ATTENTIVE HOUSE OF ...
... is a bright as well as a dark side to the war picture. The successful evacuation of 335,000 British and French troops from Dunkirk notwithstanding all the enemy's efforts was an achievement of which the nation has a right to be proud. It could not have ...
... which cur tanks to support every infantry attack, the German soldier of to-day is physi- and that there mightcome away from Dunkirk. That feeling tle danger that ought to be maintained. If there are - infantry would come to feel that they people in Britain ...