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... SPARTAN DUNKIRK” In these Persian Wars, too. came the famous stand at Thermopylae, where Leonides guarded this pass in the centre Greece against the Persians’ massed armies—3oo Spartans against many thousands. It was achievement perhaps be compared with ...
... Commemorating Dunkirk rPHE authorities are considering the issue of a special badge or medal to those soldiers who were present the evacuation of Dunkirk, Presumably it the occasion wns commemorated with medal it would enable soldiers to wear the appropriate ...
... DUNKIRK GENERALS DECORATED the recommendation General the Allied Armies, General Blanchard; Couimander the Armies the has been awarded the Grand Cross the Legion Honour, and General whose wise handling of the retreat Dun kirk resulted the saving of the ...
... EMBARKATION ONE PENNY OF MORE DUNKIRK Lincoln Police Court WELCOME TO NEW POLICE CHIEF Taking Over at Trying and Anxious Time ...
... TORKSEY MAN SAFE FROM DUNKIRK STOItY of German parachutists of 16 and 16 years of age. terrified **• the sight of bayonet, is told by Kenneth Wilkinson, of Torksey, Lincoln, who has returned home with the B.E.F. after being on active service in France ...
... 330,000 Men of Allied Armies Safely Ferried From Dunkirk I, \ of the defenders of Dunkirk, tb* heroic rearguard that held the (jermbns at bay while-the main the trip the German* had set for 'hem, hate now re:uhe ...
... Nazis Make Ferocious, But Vain Attacks on Dunkirk: Evacuation Goes On GERMAN attacks arc continuing, but in vain, against the fortified area of Dunkirk. In spite of artillery and air bombardment, the embarkation of the troops is still going on. Across ...
... E.F. on both sides Dunkirk, which is meeting with stubborn resistance in very difficult terrain, is making good progress. Despite the bad weather our Air Force made further successful attacks yesterday on troops embaiking at Dunkirk and intervened In ...
... FRENCH: th« north operations are continuing with the same bitterness aroung the fortified area, 'camp retranche- Dunkirk, On the Somme,and on the Alsne some local Infantry actions by both 81deB.R >,4 • Between the Ailne and the Meuse artillery duels ...
... To Dunkirk D.A.F. PLANES HAVE AGAIN BOMBARDED THE FRENCH CHANNEL PORTS. THE ATTACK BEGAN EARLY THIS MORNING MANY HIGH EXPLOSIVE AND INCENDIARY BOMBS WERE DROPPED FROM DUNKIRK TO BOULOGNE UNTIL THE WHOLE STRETCH OF THE COASTLINE APPEARED TO BE ON FIRE ...
... letters to her parents the BE.F, evacuation from Dunkirk, tells of the merciless bombing and madiine-gunnlnc by the Nazis of a British hospital ship in mid- Channel. On her sixth crossing to Dunkirk nine Nazi planes raked the ship's deck and dropped ...
... MERCHANT SHIPPING LOSSES AT DUNKIRK 24,000 TONS Far Less Than Expected British mercantile shipping lost in the Dunkirk operations amounted to 24, yon totiSj, This figure given Admiralty statement today. Losses at Dunkirk must t-e regarded as far less ...