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... Up to Tuesday night French units still held out in Calais. BATTLE OFF DUNKIRK Hurricanes And Defiants Rout Enemy Aircraft In a terrific air battle over the French coast near Dunkirk last night, formation of Hurricanes and Defiants shot down 22 of a large ...
... Lille region and fighting fiercely, the Prioux Army is however, slowly retiring in the direction the entienched camp of Dunkirk Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The inundations, extending south-west and north-east of the entrenched camp, are ...
... officially described as important. battered their way through the German line during a night combat and reached the safety of Dunkirk. These units brought their war equip- ment saved from the Germans. French and British Marines were said to be still in possession ...
... troops are fighting with exemplary courage in a desperate drive to the coast. There have been heroic stands at Calais and Dunkirk. Nazis admit heavy losses, and their troops are showing signs of exhaustion. The Battle of Fianders may leave the Nazis in ...
... October 13, 1914, and the Germans never came near it again during that war. They bombarded Dunkirk with a 16- inch gun from a range of more'than 20 miles. Dunkirk was bombed from the air also. At Nieuport our naval guns were only a few yards from the Germans ...
... possession of the famous Line of the Hills.” which extends between Cassel and Ypres and divides the region of Lille from that of Dunkirk. The German attacks both in the southwest and north-east arc meeting with fierce resistance from the Allied troops, consisting ...
... was fleeing from its enemies. May 30th were severely handicapped by weather conditions. •* In spite o( this the harbour of Dunkirk was again attacked. The German Navy has taken over the defence the entire Dutch coast and of the part of the French and Belgian ...
... possession of the famous line of the hills. which extends between Cassel and Ypres, and divides the region of Lille from that of Dunkirk. The German attacks, both in the southwest and north-east, are meeting with fierce resistance from the Allied troops, consisting ...
... broken down. I “The British Army, which is concen| tratcd in the area of Dixmudc. Armen' tiers, Bailleul and Bergues. west of Dunkirk, is facing complete destruction by our concentric attacks. LILLK REACHED. •* Lille was reached by German forces ! coming from ...
... I was bombed. 44 On our last night in Holland we were bombed. In Zeebrugge, Belgium, we slept through an air raid and in Dunkirk we were bombed again. Only when back in England did I have an undisturbed night. Ostend we watched German ’planes sweep down ...
... region of Cassel. u On the Somme and on J ■ the rest of the front there J S was nothing new. intact, since the harbour at Dunkirk is already under fire from German artillery and no other port has facilities for largescale embarkation. It is expected in ...
... are being foiled by German air attacks against those Channel ports, which are still in the enemy's hands. •• The port of Dunkirk was destroyed fire. important events on the southern AERODROMES ATTACKED “The German Air Force also attacked aerodromes in ...