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... Germans who are coming closer. R.A.F. men arriving in England today told how they were turned into infantrymen to help in the Flanders battle. Losing touch with their units, they were given rifles by British infantry units, merged into the ranks, and fought ...
... Piatt, son. Mrs. Piatt,. 141, Oak-avenue, and formerly of; hit taker-street, Burnley, was among those successfully evacuated from Flanders. resident in Chesterfield, .he is married and has three children An old scholar of School, he Burnley Territorial ...
... fought along in 1940. Air reconnaissance reports indicate that the Germans have so far made no attempt to stage a large-scale evacuation across the mouth of the Scheldt towards Flushing. Between Dunkirk and Calais, some fairly effective flooding has been carried ...
... military spokesman stated to-day that, as already indicated in the London announcement, the first units of Allied troops evacuated from Flanders were in position along the Somme-Aisne front before the German attack started. ...
... any hour may become the greatest battlefield in history. These people, most of them men whose wives and children have been evacuated, plus old folk who will never leave the land, live their regular lives while around them fortifications widen and solidify ...
... included one-armed veteran of the last war. According to some estimates, only a division of Allied troops now remains in Flanders. Among those safely landed in England were increasing numbers of General Prioux’s gallant French Army, who had hacked their ...
... be safer to leave Tunisia and take a look across the Mediterranean, where the Nazis have given new orders regarding the evacuation of the French coast. Taking their tempo from the quick march of their forces in North Africa, the Nazis are. feverishly ...
... WEYGAND “PLAN” SURPRISE LORD GORT’S despatches on the campaign in France and Flanders, issued to-day, lift the veil upon the tragedy which culminated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Commander-in-Chief describes how the B.E.F. were left unsupported on each ...
... British forces at Dunkirk are continuing in complete solidarity the stubborn .fight to resist the German drive and assure the evacuation,” says the official French communique. An important section of General Prioux’s army has net yet been able to reach tha ...
... House of Commons on the evacuation of the Allied armies from Dunkirk was a masterpiece of clarity, realism and inspiration. In stating that 335,000 men had been evacuated from the trap of treachery in Northern France and Flanders, the Prime Minister referred ...
... Germany’s war effort. He has also released Dutch prisoners of war. B.E.F. SURVIVORS KILLED AT HOME After getting back safely from Flanders, Sapper A. Rutherford has died in a military hospital in the South of England from injuries received when he was knocked ...
... the campaign in Flanders it was proved again and again that infantry could defend positions even against armoured fighting vehicles and air attacks. It was infantry who held the Dunkirk bridgehead and made is x possible for the evacuation to be carried ...