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Grim Night Fighting Towns: Allied Drive DUNKIRK STRONGLY HELD BY FRENCH

... Grim Night Fighting Towns: Allied Drive DUNKIRK STRONGLY HELD BY FRENCH Violent Struggle Cassel and on Near Yser Paris. Thursday. FIGHTING with indomitable resolution the British and French armies in the north are making a desperate bid to drive their ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 804 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK FLOODS STRENGTHEN ALLIED DEFENCES Sea Pours Over Wide Area

... DUNKIRK FLOODS STRENGTHEN ALLIED DEFENCES Sea Pours Over Wide Area Pans. Friday. D , mkirk is hciciinc out magnificently The inundations extending youth-west and north-east of this ,:ntrenchtt camp are now cfnctive. their water having risen owing to the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK’S AIRMAN DID FIRST “SOLO” IN BATTLE (Pbom oua own ooai

... DUNKIRK’S AIRMAN DID FIRST “SOLO” IN BATTLE (Pbom oua own ooai i, A fils, Friday. •A TERRIFYING adventure in the air that ended with promotion for a second lieutenant and award the Cross the Legion Honour told in the French Press. A pilot, with an observer ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 1 | 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

bombers, betw ~en Calais and Dunkirk, their protecting Messerschmitts held from the fight. The Hurricanes first ..

... bombers, betw ~en Calais and Dunkirk, their protecting Messerschmitts held from the fight. The Hurricanes first shot down and probably seven of the . bombers at 11,000 feet. Then they :limbed to 22,000 feet and put three of the Measerschmitts out of action ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FRENCH: th« north operations are continuing with the same bitterness aroung the fortified area, 'camp retranche ..

... FRENCH: th« north operations are continuing with the same bitterness aroung the fortified area, 'camp retranche- Dunkirk, On the Somme,and on the Alsne some local Infantry actions by both 81deB.R >,4 • Between the Ailne and the Meuse artillery duels ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 495 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Marsh That Halted Caesar Stops Hitler LL that big area to the south-west of Dunkirk, from Gravelines almost to St

... Marsh That Halted Caesar Stops Hitler LL that big area to the south-west of Dunkirk, from Gravelines almost to St. Omer, which was once a marsh that held up Julius Caesar’s legions, has gone back to marsh and is now holding up Hitler’s hordes. This t ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 355 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HOUSANDS OF B.E.F. HOME AS REARGUARD FIGHTS ON Three Destroyers Lost in Withdrawal FRENCH DIVISIONS REACH DUNKIRK

... HOUSANDS OF B.E.F. HOME AS REARGUARD FIGHTS ON Three Destroyers Lost in Withdrawal FRENCH DIVISIONS REACH DUNKIRK pART of the B.E.F. has been safely evacuated. Many have already reached this country. Yesterday they were arriving by thousands. Three British ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 597 | Page: 1 | Tags: none