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Dunkirk

... Dunkirk On* hundred endi warships and over French merchant vessels of all kinds ranging from converted liners to trawlers have taken part the defence of Dunkirk and the evacuation of the Allied forces Flanders, it stated Paris.—P.A. War Special. ALLIES’ ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MUD AND FOR DUNKIRK

... MUD AND FOR DUNKIRK allied DEFENDERS HOLD 1 R.A.F. STRIKES IN OFF 15 DIVISIONS French ’Plane* Destroy Convoys Hififiriilties in the 'l * baud* of tlie Allied troops new aimcumes m in« outsklrts liud conunuing reirk area, the embarkation with the utmost ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... enemy aircraft and probably a further six over the Dunkirk area yesterday. Eight of our fighters are missing. “Seventy - eight Nazi bombers and fighters were destroyed or severely damaged over the Dunkirk beaches between dawn and seven o’clock Saturday. ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 511 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

UNEASY CALM SETTLES ON REST OF WESTERN FRONT

... UNEASY CALM SETTLES ON REST OF WESTERN FRONT BILE the embarkation operations at Dunkirk continue on par- W ticularly large scale, the front from the Somme to the Rhine remains in a state of waiting, it was intimated in Paris last mght. The calm has only ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALREADY SAVEI BRITISH WARNING

... ALREADY SAVEI BRITISH WARNING As Dunkirk Evacuation Goes On ' french SOLDIERS senlry duty brldgo up as measure at the Front. ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 21 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Tanks Slaughter Women

... of the men spent two days in farmhouse on the retreat to Dunkirk. On the way the soldiers destroyed all equipment they could not carry- Gunner Farmer graphically described the scenes in Dunkirk. When they got orders to move in the place was in flames ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SHIPPING AND TRAVEL

... SHIPPING AND TRAVEL Enjoy the Sunshine Sea Breezes at year-old Gunner George Farmer evacuated from Dunkirk with other members of the 8.K.F., this War is a game that the Allies are sure to win. Gunner Farmer, fair, blue eyed, joined up October. lie lives ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 541 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

KING HONOURS LORD GORT

... KING HONOURS LORD GORT the evacuation from Dunkirk well forward Lord Gort handed over his command of the B.E.F. Flanders to a less sento* officer and returned to England on Saturday. Soon after his arrival he went to Buckingham Palace, where the King ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 1 | 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

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