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... the Dunkirk Area The Trench military spokesman announced to-day that in the Dunkirk area the embarkation troops was still being actively carried out at normal speed despite new difficulties. During the past twenty-four hours the enemy has brought up heavy ...
... red flares. Near Dunkirk, the oil tanks were still blazing furiously. In the middle of the swept channel, we bumped some wreckage and fouled one of our propellers. We crept ahead on one engine until we reached the entrance to Dunkirk harbour. There we ...
... coast to the northwest of it are in German hands. Adinkerke, west of Fumes, audGhyvelde, ten kilometres (six miles) east of Dunkirk, have been taken. “The number prisoners and the amount of booty also considerably increased yesterday. Two hundred guns of ...
... corresponds to the strength of several divisions; (3) Tliat the British transport fleet off Dunkirk has been scattered or destroyed (4) That the fall of Dunkirk is to expected soon ; (5) That Marseilles and the most important French railway communications ...
... 100 FRENCH WARSHIPS AT DUNKIRK Paris, June 2 Some 100 French warships and more than 200 French merchant vessels of all kinds, ranging from converted liners to trawlers, have taken part in the defence of Dunkirk and the evacuation of the Allied forces ...
... the B.E.F. on both sides of Dunkirk, which is meeting with stubborn resistance in very good terrain, is making good progress. Despite the bad weather our air force made further successful attacks yesterday on troops at Dunkirk and intervened in the protection ...
... Vienna, Hanover and Munich. JUNE 3, 1940 THE EMBARKATIONS AT DUNKIRK THOUSANDS OF MEN STILL LEAVING PROCESS GOING ON DAY ANT) NIGHT Paris, June 2 While the re-embarkation operations at Dunkirk continue on a particularly large scale, tlie tront from the ...
... direct order of the Government—and nothing less, we can be sure, would have moved him —General Lord Gort has come home from Dunkirk. The honour with which the King has so promptly invested him expresses in some measure the tribute which the whole nation ...
... EMBARKED” Paris, June 2 To-night’s official French war communique states:— Since the order was given to them to fall back Dunkirk, French and British troops engaged on three fronts in the region from St. Omer to the neighbourhood of Arras, Valenciennes ...
... had hoped, and the Armada sailed into the North Sea virtually unimpaired and still capable of convoying Parma's army from Dunkirk. But, we all know, “Afflavit et dissipati sunt,” in the words inscribed by Queen Elizabeth on the Armada Medal, and that day ...
... Sai d: “Twenty convoys of to Lille, and in got and machine-gunning V ll QrOU « h sa e ly* We were then a sanatorium near Dunkirk, the surgeons were marvellous. order came for evacuation, S Ce d to get sufficient ? 1, A hut those who could walk tai-f / ...
... the moment of the collapse of the Belgian Army there was only one course left to the Allied Armies —to hold a line round Dunkirk, the onlyport that remained, and to embark as many men as possible before their rearguards were overwhelmed. Thanks to the ...