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ALLIES ARE STILL HOLDING ON TO CALAIS

... ALLIES ARE STILL HOLDING ON TO CALAIS TERRIFIC GERMAN LOSSES FORCES FLUNG '^ T TO FLANDERS BATTLE Stacks continue . the strategic silence which is being main.let' details of the fighting across the English e ' these facts emerged to-day. Calais still ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1059 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZIS CLAIM 19 SHIPS SUNK

... NAZIS CLAIM 19 SHIPS SUNK BIG RAID OFF FLANDERS A special announcement by the German High Command, which was read over the official German wireless to-day, claims that strong units of the German Air Force yesterday evening attacked British warships ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIES CONTINUING GRIM REARGUARD ACTION

... CONTINUING GRIM REARGUARD ACTION EVACUATION OF TROOPS STILL HOLDING OUT: K NAZIS LOSE HEAVILY army hacking way to safety While ever-increasing numbers British and French troops are SAFELY LANDED IN ENGLAND, I COMRADES IN FLANDERS ARE CONTINUING THEIR GREAT ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BACK FROM INFERNO WITH SPIRITS UNOAUNTED

... thousands, and it is hoped that most of the B.E.F. may he evacuated, although the difficulties and dangers increase everv hour. NUMBER of French officers and men who had been fighting in Flanders have also arrived in this country. The withdrawal is being ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1273 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

REST OF WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

... staying. ■» * * * Admiral Abrial, who is in command of the French naval forces which have been assisting in the, evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders, has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIES WILL FIGHT TO FINAL VICTORY

... remains in Flanders. Among those safely landed in England were increasing numbers of General Prioux's gallant French Army who had hacked their way through to Dunkirk. They were remarkably fit and confident. Trains carrying Tommies back from Flanders were running ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1001 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DAY-TO-DAY DIARY OF THE WAR

... battle had been evacuated with the assistance of the Royal Navy. The operation proceeded with success, and numbers of troops reached this country. Over 70 enemy aircraft were destroyed and many others damaged by the R.A.F. the Flanders front. One squadron ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 885 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Admiral Abrial, who commands the French naval forces assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders, ..

... Admiral Abrial, who commands the French naval forces assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders, has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. The Admiral, who is 60, was a member of the Supreme Naval Council when war broke out ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 45 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MANY NAZI PLANES DOWN

... more Nazi 'planes is announced in the following Air Minis-, try statement:— Royal Air Force fighters continue to screen the evacuation of Allied troops from the North-East coast of France. Further reports show that during yesterday 56 enemy aircraft were ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BOMBED ON BEACH

... the R.A.S.C., a young man with a remarkable story to tell of rearguard actions in Flanders, intense bombing and machine-gunning, whole towns ablaze, and the final evacuation by the Navy of the men of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. He told an Echo reporter ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NAZIS' APPALLING LOSSES AT RETHEL

... NAZIS' APPALLING LOSSES AT RETHEL Thousands of bodies lying in the sun FRENCH RE-ESTABLISHED THEIR LINE 'JNKIRK evacuation continues s uff V * description ' appalling losses '' erman troops in vain assaults g^ lns the French lines in the region of Rethel ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 968 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FEROCIOUS FIGHTING IN DUNKIRK AREA

... been Wv several occasions. Na vy, under the difficult conditions and V attacks from the yed an heroic part, Part s, lies evacuating a Hoc the army and joining u eriCe the Dunkirk fortiv?°re h troops from Dunkirk 111 England to-day. ; '' them carried their ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 1 | Tags: none