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Dunkirk Operations

... Dunkirk Operations At Dunkirk the combined Allied air forces are giving effective protection to the embarkation of wounded, and of troops which are not needed for the defence of the fortified area, and also to the unloading of supplies and medical stores ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

ROAD TO DUNKIRK

... ROAD TO DUNKIRK the North there was a group of three Allied armies—the Belgian Array, the B.E.F. and some French divisions. This group of three armies, under the command of General Blanchard, was supplied by way Dunkirk. The French and British Annies ...

WAY TO DUNKIRK OPENED

... WAY TO DUNKIRK OPENED M. Reynaud said the King of the Belgians ordered his Army to lay down their arms at four o'clock this morning, thus opening the way for German'divisions to Dunkirk. The B.E.F. and the French forces in Belgium are using Dunkirk as their ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EMBARKATION OF ALLIED TROOPS AT DUNKIRK B.E.F. GETTING OUT OF TRAP

... safely embarked, despite intensive German air attacks on Dunkirk. Sweeping claims to have inflicted damage at Dunkirk on Allied naval units were made in a special communique issued by the German High Command in Berlin to-day. This communi ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1025 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Lille Fighting

... partly occupied by the Germans, hut the spokesman said that some French troops are still holding out there. Fortifying Dunkirk Dunkirk being fortified French and British naval engineers, the Admiral commanding the operations reported to-night. He satisfied ...

COMMUNIQUES

... the road to Dunkirk to the Germans the Allied Command has never lost Its coolness for a moment. The watchword Immediately went out The British and French go on fighting. The Belgian Army's task had been to defend the sector North of Dunkirk while the ...

FIGHTING THROUGH

... fortified area Dunkirk, completely eurrounded flood water*, but to tbe west of Canal, the French military epokeeman stated today. The army of General Prloux. which was hemmed near Lille, continues to make progress northwards towards the Dunkirk region. Already ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

SKILFUL REARGUARD FIGHTS AS B.E.F. FALL BACK

... Calais DUNKIRK FIRMLY HELD: R.A.F.'s GREAT WORK The King's Grateful Words to Our Troops Fighting skilful rearguard actions, the British and French troops in Flanders, it was learned early to-day, continued their well-ordered withdrawal on Dunkirk. ONE of ...

GERMAN PRISONERS

... * The Oerman communique May claims that destroyer was sunk by aeroplanes in the port of Dunkirk, that cruiser and a cargo vessel were seriously damaged oft Dunkirk, that two French destroyers were damaged and a transport badly hit that had to run aground ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Raider Brought Down

... and British United Press.J CALAIS AND DUNKIRK BOMBED Washington. Friday. Mr. William C. Bullitt, the ÜB. Ambassador Paris, has telephoned to Washington to report that the Germans have bombed Calais and Dunkirk.—British United Press. ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Continuous Bombing

... from clergyman but could not sleep because the house rocked ~ After another walk of ten miles toward Dunkirk, they got a lift in a milk float. At Dunkirk they had take refuge in the cellars a candle factory during vlolant bombing. ...