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3 June 1940 (35)

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FIGHTING COMMANDER

... ardour of determination. Our country will not be unworthy of the men who cut their way across Flanders and held the beaches of Dunkirk. It will put forth all its energy and resources for the swift victory of the Allies, honouring more than ever, after these ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CAR DID NOT STOP

... to Arms Factory GOVERNOR TO ADDRESS ASSEMBLY TO-DAY Heads of Other Churches Join in Centenary Services LONDON CHEERS FOR DUNKIRK HEROES NAVAL MEN SLEEP IN STREETS ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOW TO TREAT TANKS

... down one Messerschmidt 109. During the night our bombers continued to maintain the service supplies to the Allied troops the Dunkirk region, especially of medicines. Numerous reconnaissance flights were carried out over Northern France. Fighter craft ensured ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FOR RECONNAISSANCE WORK

... artillery batteries, talcing part fighting on the Albert Canal and in front of Bruges. After the so,, he succeeded in reaching Dunkirk wasome 20 other officers. The troops were amazed when the o-°- came to lay down arms, he sain. The duty and desire of all ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STATION CROWDS CHEER BJE.F. CHILDREN GIVE TROOPS SWEETS WOMEN and children in their Sunday best crowded station ..

... streets near the railway lines to pay their tribute the tired but cheerful fighting men. The stream of troops evacuated from Dunkirk had continued at full flow throughout the night. Several rompemee of French regiment marched off the landing quay with military ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GERMAN LOSSES

... While these events were taking place near our own shores, our Expeditionary Force was fighting for Its life in Its retreat to Dunkirk./ Mechanised forces already encircled Sts western flank, and the collapse of the Belgian Army left open a wide gap between ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 592 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TRIUMPH OF TENACITY

... Merchant Navy giving the most daring co-operation. It must have been as thrilling a spectacle, off the shallow beaches of Dunkirk, as any recorded the lore of these islands. With them were humble boatmen from seaside resorts whose chief reaction will probably ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 585 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Sequence of Event*

... exposed. ■■ While these events were taking plac . near our own shores our Ex'ped.tiona Force was lighting fur its life to Dunkirk. Mechanised forces already encircled .Is western fl an>;. and the collapse of the Belgian army left °P™ * w e gap between ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BELFAST TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1940

... carry troops from Dunkirk sands to destroyers and other vessels, returned to his home on SaturdaY suffering from shock and exhaustion. Here is 0 Neill s story— Six motorboats were commandeered and taken across. As we approached Dunkirk roads German aircraft ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1510 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MATER HOSPITAL

... through—all but the heroic and selfsacrificing rearguard, which, still fighting resolutely, is moving slowly towards the sea and Dunkirk. Here, surely, is a miraculous deliverance a deliverance made possible by its own courage and resource and, in the last stage ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1775 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Week of Sensation Fb, qi... HKa.r : shocks, and citizens have scarcel> recovered from one before another has ..

... contingent, upon that rei , and the returning tru, I native army he p h“F. H equally earned by their eoura enemv'a way to Dunkirk and Calal .«nie constancv Uie laurels of groat rare shock in the early part oi in vlctory suc |, s the Ulster Division pai ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1338 | Page: 4 | Tags: none