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THE LAST MEN HOME: The B.E.F. Demolition Squads Return to Britain

... also taken at many other French ports Sfe LANCASHIRE WELL TO THE FORE AGAIN: After their gallant work during the Retreat to Dunkirk, men from Lancashire were also amongst the last to leave France. Here is a group of lads from Manchester: in the centre, without ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 326 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

FRANCE'S FAILURE: A Look Back and a Look Forward

... whole of the British Expedi tionary Force. Our Army and 120,000 French troops were, indeed, rescued by the British Navy from Dunkirk, but only with the loss of all their cannon, vehicles, and modern equipment. This loss inevitably took some weeks to repair ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 696 | Page: 28 | Tags: Maps 

THE SILENT PORTS of the Northern Seas: The Sorry Plight of the Sea-borne Trade of the Occupied Lands

... of Hamburg and Bremen, let alone the smaller ports dealing mostly in passenger traffic such as Flushing, Hook of Holland, Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne? But for traffic with Germany, where the sea routes are more or less available by hugging the coastline ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1006 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

US ALONE: Our Chances in the Air in a Straight Fight Against Germany

... German bombers. TTith unlimited respect for the gallantry of the VY little ships which brought the B.E.F. off the beaches at Dunkirk, that job could not have been done but for the fact that our short-range high speed fighters were able to operate from their ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1805 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs