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THE LAST PHASES at DUNKIRK: Scenes During the Retreat to the Coast; and in the City of Dunkirk Itself

... RETREATED ON TO DUNKIRK DUNKIRK-- THE TOWN A BLAZING LORRY IN A STREET STREWN WITH DEBRIS AFTER AN INTENSIVE GERMAN AIR ATTACK. A FEW MINUTES AFTER THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN A COLUMN OF ALLIED TROOPS MARCHED THIS SpOT ON THEIR WAY TO THE DOCKS DUNKIRK -THE HARBOUR ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 273 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

BACK FROM DUNKIRK WITH THE B.E.F

... BACK FROM DUNKIRK WITH THE B.E.F. So this is England A truckful of stray dogs rescued by men of the B.E.F. Stray dogs who followed the British soldiers and got safely to England. Bight Taking a look out of their truck Belgian and French pets brought here ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 153 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

THE EPIC OF THE DUNKIRK BEACHES: A Story of Allied Heroism and Desperate Endeavour which will Live Down the Ages

... EPIC OF THE DUNKIRK BEACHES A Story of Allied Heroism and Desperate Endeavour which will Live Down the Ages Above-- AN ACTUAL I ENEMY BOMBING RAID IN PROGRESS As bombs were bursting and Nazi bullets were raining down on the beach at Dunkirk our soldiers ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 348 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GREAT RESCUE SEEN FROM THE AIR

... Armada which evacuated the B.E.F. j F from Dunkirk. Pari of the historic Armada of battleships, liners, fishing-smacks, pleasure steamers, row-boats and yachts which brought the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. i Three to four hundred men of the B ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 220 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NAVY'S PART IN THE GREAT EVACUATION

... all, were loud in their praises of the work of the Royal Navy, who backed in fearlessly to the shelled and bombed moles at Dunkirk. The waiting men swarmed on to the destroyers' decks until they could hold no more. Vessel after vessel would pull out, only ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... only daughter and, like her mother, is a keen officer of this most useful unit which has had its baptism of fire in the Dunkirk operations. Senior Commandant Corbett, seen in the smaller picture, is the officer who figured in the A.T.S. recruiting poster ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 106 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

DAVIDS and GOLIATHS: Our Small Vessels Are Proving Their Worth Against Heavy Enemy Air Attack

... pebble? The simile is apt and must fit a hundred episodes during the great retreat from Flanders and the evacua tion from Dunkirk, whether it was our light tanks against the German heavy mechanised columns, field artillery against German heavy batteries ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1181 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Wartime Comments and Asides

... rose to his greatest heights of oratory, unsurpassed even by himself, when he described the miracle of the evacuation of Dunkirk. He was especially moving and noble in his tribute to the few thousand airmen who made the miracle possible by holding back ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2030 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

French Sailor British Soldier

... Sailor British Soldier Out of the dozens of photographs, dramatic, tragic, pathetic, comic, that were taken of the Battle of Dunkirk, of the embarkation of the B.E.F. from those now historic beaches, and of their arrival in England, we have chosen these two ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 246 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

COME TO THE COOKHOUSE DOOR, BOYS!: HOW R.A.F. COOKS ARE TRAINED

... bacon. VK r Very tasty very sweet (Apologies to Douglas Young, of Kenway and Young.) Right The return of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk was chosen by some of the cooks as finish for an iced cake in their final trade test. AS its personnel grows, vast numbei ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 233 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs