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THE ARMY IN THE ..

... dangerous and powerful opposition on the strength of its hard hitting arms alone. Unlike the days following the evacuation of Dunkirk, the British Army is now fully equipped in almost every particular; it is ready to put up the most damaging resistance to ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 598 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

A ONE-FRONT WAR

... history. Remember I that those who administer our Information 1 have not yet told us the history of 1 Dunkirk. The nearest thing to it has been Prelude to Dunkirk, in the August I Blackwood's, a story to make one weep I with joy, and worthy of the best Kipling ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2737 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

AIR EDDIES: Good Grousing

... squadron left England immediately on the outbreak, and worked in France and over Belgium and Holland. It was engaged in both the Dunkirk and Calais opera tions. Of its members, P./O. Taylor, the Essex cricketer, P./O. Sinclair, a Canadian, and P./O. Clegg, who ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1187 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Wartime Comments and Asides

... journals in time of war, nothing can ever kill Old Bill. He is the spirit incarnate of the soldiery of Britain, from Crecy to Dunkirk and on. The Italian invasion of Egypt seems to have come to a standstill, for the time being at any rate. Marshal Graziani ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1439 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MEN WHO TELL US HOW WE STAND: The Work of the American Newspaper Correspondents who are Covering the ..

... shipped back again directly the trouble started. Except for the accounts of a lucky few during the first week, the whole Dunkirk exploit went unrecorded by profes sional recorders. The Americans were quite willing to risk staying and banking on their ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1811 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: Strange Case of Borley Rectory

... the supreme daring and courage of the R.A.F., especially during his description of that epic story of the evacuation from Dunkirk a story told so simply that the magnificence of it comes out in bolder relief. Altogether, interesting as Sons of the Others ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2438 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

The Walls of Britain

... the range of the Bren guns of the company commander, so down it went. This regiment, the XYZ Light Infantry, had come from Dunkirk. Their crisp step was new to this West Country town. It was almost like the double. And these active soldiers whistled as ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2921 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs