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British Prayers For France

... and the unequal forces of our gallant Allies aided by the British. Our prayers have been answered in marvellous ways at Dunkirk. Not alone on tanks and on battleships and airborne forces but on God depends the victory. To Him we must turn with renewal ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EPIC WHICH WILL NOT DIE ~Read 2HODSON' Thousands of B.E.F. Home

... who had s - ' lnc luding 200 prisoners and several entire motorised ti n J War ° m Ist tro °P s have con tion oWar ds Dunkirk, V the ™ were able to Aiv Protection of the y ° rce despite the thor 9 erta activity on h 1,1 Sh- f nothi ng to report 1 e ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZIS MACHINE-GUN NURSES IN BOAT

... NAZIS MACHINE-GUN NURSES IN BOAT WHILE escaping from a hospital ship which had been attacked by enemy planes off Dunkirk on Sunday night, nurses in a lifeboat were bombed and machine-gunned. The story of the Nazi airmen's brutality was told yesterday ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WEATHER CURTAILS R.A.F. BAG

... have been continued with great intensity throughout to-day. Formations of our fighters maintained offensive patrols over the Dunkirk area yesterday. Weather conditions were unfavourable, and there was a marked decrease in enemy air activity. One Dornier bomber ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

New U.S. Plan To Aid Allies

... In the Narvik area on May our fighters shot down nine enemy aircraft and probably destroyed two others. Yesterday oyer the Dunkirk area aircraft of the Fighter Command have continued their offensive patrols. Reports so far received show that our fighters ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TROOPS ARRIVING AS COMPLETE UNITS

... SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A South-East Port, Monday. THOUSANDS more Allied troops have been landed at this south-east port from Dunkirk, which has been described as like Brighton Beach on Bank Holiday. Thousands of French troops, too morning. With them was ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MIRACLE SAVED THEM FROM INFERNO OF FLANDERS

... impassable so trekked twenty-five miles across fields and fetched up seven miles from Dunkirk. We were done. I decided we'd march the seven miles over wet sand to Dunkirk. Half-way there we met troops coming away—men couldn't live in that inferno of bombing ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2086 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AMAZING ESCAPE OF 5 OF B.E.F

... the dinghy without a sound and slipped out again to the trawler. These men told us they had wandered along the shore from Dunkirk to Calais, often having to hide in the sand dunes. They were utterly exhausted. Finally they had crawled under the jetty ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

North-East Men Tell of Grim Ordeal

... the hunger that got you down, but the thirst, said an Aberdeen man in the R.A.S.C. who waited for days on the beaches at Dunkirk, bombed and machine-gunned from the air. We thanked Heaven for the break in the weather when a violent thunderstorm occurred ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 406 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

REYNAUD'S NEW APPEAL TO AMERICA

... the ultimate outcome of the war, do not doubt the fate of the country. VANGUARD OF DEMOCRACY The heroism of the armies of Dunkirk has been surpassed in the fighting which is taking place from the sea to the Argonne. The soul of France is not conquered ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMAN VIEW OF PLANS TO INVADE BRITAIN

... learned this last few weeks that the German engineers and pioneers are very ingenious people, and we know from what happened at Dunkirk that small boats can be put to very effective use, but it is one thing getting away from open beaches to safety and quite ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1169 | Page: 2 | Tags: none