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... Calais was still in Allied i the Allies still held a 30-mile stretch of the Channel to shelling furi: 'y both Calais and Dunkirk. Zeebrugge remains J, Allied hands. V l! ita ry experts agreed to-day that the B.E.F. was pur'tta only course, in view of ...
... Channel 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 by fire. The German Air Force also attacked aerodromes in the vicinity of Paris, roads and railways south of ...
... critical.” These armies were, however, fighting “murderously and with admirable courage.” French troops were still holding Dunkirk, he said, and French detachments w€re also still inside Calais. French forces have taken three villages south of the Somme ...
... Leopold’s action Alli e Dunkirk the 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 British and ...
... [Bourbourgville is ten miles southwest of the port of Dunkirk, and about fifteen miles east of Calais.] “The German air force bombed the communication line leading to Zeebrugge, Nieuport, Ostend and Dunkirk, as well as the ports and ships in the ports. An ...
... 8.E.F., and some French divisions. This group of three Armies was commanded by General Blanchard. “It was provisioned via Dunkirk. “The British and the French armies defended this port in the south and in the west, the Belgian Army in the north. Death ...
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... Government schedule previously dealt with transhipment between Trouffkeno and Gibraltar, the limits had been amended to •• Dunkirk and Gibraltar. The only other official action taken last Friday was the decision that Lloyd's and the companies would open ...
... only—to retire to the sea, and there endeavour to maintain a perimeter of defence under the very noses of enemy bombers. Dunkirk is still held, and massed R.A.F. and French ’planes are dropping barrages of bombs to afford protection to the troops The ...
... The sound of gunfire was heard, early to-day, on the South-East Coast, coming apparently from the direction of Calais or Dunkirk. It was heard at intervals over a period ot about two hours, and at times was very rapid There were also heavy detonations ...
... BRITAIN’S TERROR OF THE AIR (BY OUR AIR CORRESPOND CRT) rpwEI.VE Boulton Paul Defiant lighters shot down 37 German bombers over Dunkirk, thus staking the Defianfs claim to the title “Destroyer above that of the muchvaunted Messerschmitt 110, despite the German ...
... Bullitt, the United States Ambassador in Paris, telephoned to Washington to report that the Germans have bombed Calais and Dunkirk. At Lille bombs intended for the Lille air field destroyed houses. A message from Paris states that over fifty civilians have ...