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LANTRY AWARDS t NAVAL HEROES OF DUNKIRK

... LANTRY AWARDS NAVAL HEROES OF DUNKIRK wards “for good services in the with-sre the Allied armies from the French in a supplement to London pi.-j number of Indian Army officers are in the list. j S Gallantl T °nalH e i t 0 Leadin Keith Robb. who. in both ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 833 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A bomb made a big crater in front of a store during last nigh

... Heinkel and sent it into the sea to join the first. A Scottish fighter squadron missed the whole of the Dunkirk fighting, but have now visited the Dunkirk beaches their own. They left behind them a Messerschmitt 109 crashed and broken. This was the end of ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 420 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Rail Disorganisation

... carried out by a strong force of bombers, was still in progress after dawn had broken. Docks and shipping at Ijmuiden, Ostend, Dunkirk and Flushing were attacked. ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 176 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Defence

... Birmingham contributed los. !)d. The lifeboat did splendid work in the evacuation from Dunkirk and returned bearing the scars battle. Later she was given the name Guide of Dunkirk.’ After consultation with Government Departments it was decided to spend the remaining ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 574 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

May Not Succeed

... experts of many descriptions. Spain has had some experience of Nazi propaganda and will remember the Germans’ failure at Dunkirk to press home an obvious advantage. Spaniards are no means convinced that victory is going to be so easy. Their keen sense ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 231 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

W INVASION PLANS WERE UPSET

... munitions and equipment, naval vessels and from trustworthy sources provide evidence damage at Antwerp, Calais, Boulogne, Dunkirk, Seaport, Le Havre, Brest and Lorient, in addition to the naval docks and shipbuilding yards at Kiel, and Bremen. At Lorient ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1053 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GERMANY

... there and tramp steamer observed in .'jter harbour was directly hit beavy bomb. The docks at URes were also attacked. off Dunkirk one of the J 8 sighted a convoy of 12 to 15 fi cargo vessels. They were by E-boats and travelling astern in two ranks. The ...

Published: Tuesday 22 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 265 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A Waiting List

... in different parts England, to mine-sweepers and to private soldiers, relations of the workers. One soldier came back from Dunkirk carrying his blanket but nothing else. Another w rote that Once I have it on the bed it would take more than Hitler to get ...

Published: Tuesday 22 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 384 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HITLER’S THERE would be no surprise if, as stated in well-informed Berlin circles,” Hitler were to call the ..

... country. These have, however, miscarried for the moment with the postponement of invasion, which was left too late after Dunkirk, and with the foiling of Germany’s air campaign by what President Roosevelt has just called some courage on the part of the ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 407 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BROADCASTING

... endeared themselves to a large audience. He started as a Postscript speaker just after the withdrawal of the B.’E.F. from Dunkirk, and his task has been that of assessing and interpreting the spirit of England in the difficult days that followed. As he ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 424 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TWO BOMBERS DOWN

... the Green Howards and was officially reported missing early in July. He was last seen at a casualty clearing station near Dunkirk with a leg wound and wound in the back. ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 424 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PLANTS IN ITALY ATTACKED

... launched series of attacks on Antwerp, Rotterdam, Ostend and Dunkirk, which began soon after 7 p.m. and continued for nearly twm hours. Many hits were scored on wharves and harbour works. Phres at Dunkirk could be seen all the way to the English coast. In Italy ...

Published: Tuesday 22 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1004 | Page: 3 | Tags: none