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DUNKIRK

... the coast, a steady stream of arms and supplies is going into Dunkirk from a large number of ships. Supreme Courage French marines and British naval engineers went ashore and transformed Dunkirk into an armed camp. German bombing squadrons, trying to smash ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 359 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

B.E.F. HOL WAY TO SEA

... reached Dunkirk. The remainder of their comrades were following. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The flooding carried out south-west and north-east of the entrenched camp is now effective. All the area to the south-west of Dunkirk, from the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

IGHT FOR HOUSINDS 110

... totalling only about 270,000 men. But the Allied soldiers held on to their positions along the Yser—a semicircle to the east of Dunkirk. At other points they withdrew so slowly that the Germans had to struggle for every yard. The Germans flung advance forces ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 308 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Bir.uiu HAY 10 SEA

... have reached Dunkirk. The remainder their comrades were following. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The flooding earned out south-west and north-east of the entrenched camp is now effective. All the area to the south-west of Dunkirk, from the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 372 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Is BB: NAVY SHELLS ENEMY

... Is NAVY SHELLS ENEMY B RITISH and French troops last night held Calais and Dunkirk. The French official communique stated that Boulogne had been taken by the Germans after fierce street fighting. But Paris reported that Allied forces still hold the town's ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 187 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RAE AND NAVY PLANES STRIKE

... they could fight on with the British and French soldiers. The R.A.F. fought off the enemy's air attacks on Dunkirk's communications. Near Dunkirk a formation of Hurricanes and Defiants tore into big forces of German bombers, heavily escorted by fighters ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 326 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

12.Allti$

... movement it will mean they have broken the Allied pressure on the northern bend of the bulge, and will be driving towards Ypres, Dunkirk and Ostend. ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 54 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Too Many to Count

... than they could count. They brought down seventeen fighters as well as a dive bomber. First they sighted seven 109's over Dunkirk and shot one down The rest escaped. Then four 110's dived at them out of the sun. In this dog fight one Defiant was hit. The ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 243 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FRANCE TOLD OF BETRAYAL

... Army, the British Expeditionary Force and some French divisions under the command of General Blanchard. and supplied via Dunkirk. The French and British defended the Port in the south and in the west and the Belgian army in the north. It is this Belgan ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 406 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Calais Ours Claim

... German Air Force renewed its attacks on those ports on the Belgian and French coast still in Allied hands. The harbour of Dunkirk is in flames. Attacks by the German Air Force were carried out against aerodromes near Paris The Allied losses amounted yesterday ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 194 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Family Wiped-Out

... announced that casualties in yesterday's raid on Greater Brussels were thirty-seven killed and sixty-one wounded, Calais, Dunkirk and Boulogne also were bombed. Thirty • seven German planes bombed Antwerp, and an asylum for the insane at Mortsel was reported ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 169 | Page: 16 | Tags: none