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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

** Dunkirk Firr”

... ** Dunkirk Firr” Attacks against the German positions north-west of Lens, carried out by French colonial troops, were repulsed with heavy losses for the enemy. Calais was captured after a grim fight, as already reported. In Boulogne German tank fired ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 67 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FIGHTING IN DUNKIRK?

... FIGHTING IN DUNKIRK? Street fighting was reported, to-day, in the Channel port of Dunkirk, according to informed Nazi sources in Berlin, who said that the Belgian capitulation had permitted a very strong break-through on the entire line. The French, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Supplies to Dunkirk

... Supplies to Dunkirk THE French and British troops that are fighting in Northern France are maintaining with a heroism worthy of their traditions a struggle of excep- tional intensity For a fortnight past they have been fighting battle separated from the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 396 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HEAVLIY BOMBED

... DUNKIRK HEAVLIY BOMBED Authoritative advices received in t'ans state that while the situation on tne .Northern front is not clear, the battle is extremely violent and is marked by deadly combats in most sectors between Allied and enemy units, which are ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 196 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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

DUNKIRK AND DOVER

... damaged by bombs The German Air Three also sue• I (es-shiny bombed the ports Dunkirk I I and Dover. German high-speed boats I torpedoed and sank an enemy destroyer off Dunkirk. In general, the activity of the Air Threes on both sides was limited by weather ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 6 | 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 ...

DUNKIRK HEAVILY BOMBED

... DUNKIRK HEAVILY BOMBED GERMAN ONSLAUGHT ON VITAL PORT. PARIS, Wednesday. The German Air Force has very heavily bombed the port of Dunkirk. At present the port is not directly threatened by German land attacks. ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 34 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Supplies Reaching Dunkirk

... Supplies Reaching Dunkirk OSTEND Midddkerke unl, '> Hxmu Armei Laventt ° Warn La '^Lillers Bethune civeridy Bruay logs Houdain Lens Dunkirk is being fortified by French and British naval engineers, the Admiral commanding the operations reported to-night ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 142 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“Opened the Road to Dunkirk

... the Road to Dunkirk “It is this Belgian Army which, at tho height of the battle, has unconditionally, and without warning its British and French comrades in arms, suddenly capitulated on the orders of its King and opened the road to Dunkirk to the German ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 604 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK IS POWERFULLY ENTRENCHED

... DUNKIRK IS POWERFULLY ENTRENCHED STILL unbroken in face of overwhelming odds, the British and French Armies are continuing their heroic withdrawal to the coast. “Suicide” French divisions were reported to-day to be holding the rear while British troops ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 179 | Page: 1 | Tags: none