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DESTROYER DESTROYED

... them I was bombed. On our last night in Holland we were bombed. In Zeebrugge. Belgium, we slept through an air raid and in Dunkirk we were bombed again. Only when back in England did I have an undisturbed night. “At Ostend watched German ’planes sweep down ...

STANDING FAST

... firmly as theirs. The B.C.F. it must be remembered, is not a beaten force, though its position is so obviously critical with Dunkirk threatened. Our home morale must remain as rocklike. _ M. Reynaud has made the same appeal to the French people, and Anglo-French ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

over a wide area in Germany, radiating ~ Eastward from Aachen ONE AGAINST Sunilar targets in the immediate rear ..

... coast was continued yesterday, north-west wards towards St. Pol and Montreuil-sur-Dder. IThe harbour and docks at Ostend, 'Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne and Dieppe were successfully attacked again by the German Air Force. In Flanders, the enemy resisted toughly ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 407 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Germans Bomb Hostel

... Germans Bomb Hostel At Dunkirk they went a Salvation Army hostel for what they thought would be good night's sleep. She had just got undressed when the Germans started bombing the place. was the most frightful experience I have ever had, she said. My ...

CALAIS HELD DESPITE NAZI CLAIM

... Germans have advanced almost as far as Ypres in the Menin area, and that they have captured Calais after a grim fight. Dunkirk, it is claimed, was destroyed by fire. The French Military Spokesman said to-day that the German losses were enormous on ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 492 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

given In a broadcast by M. Reynaud, the French Prime Minister, at 8.30 a.m. France can no longer count

... Army and the British Army are now fighting alone against the enemy in the North. M. Roynaud pointed out that the road to Dunkirk—through which the three Allied Armies In the North received their supplieshad been opened to the German divisions. Paris ...

DON'T SPREAD RUMOURS

... in dames near the same place. When a Hurriran/ attacke7l a formation of 30 Heingel and Dornieit bombers between Caleis and Dunkirk. their protecting Messer:ichtnitt 1012 s held off from the fight. Tne Hurricanes first shot clown Inc ana probably seven of ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE GERMAN COMMUNIQUE Successful Attacks on Channel Ports BERLIN, Wednesday To-day's German communique stated: ..

... Channel coast was continued yesterday North-Westward St. Pol and Montreuil-«ur-Mer. The harbour and docks at Ostend. Calais, Dunkirk, Boulogne and Dieppe were successfully attacked again by the German air force. In Flanders the enemy resisted toughly cover ...

CROOK HIPPODROME

... German soldiers equipped with a preponderating weight of metal, the Allied front Is still unbroken, and the embarkation at Dunkirk steadily proceeds. Overhead the R.A.F. is performing prodigies of valour. Outnumbered though they are, our Defiants and Hurricanes ...

e'sourier a Guarbtan Tuesday, May 211, Mt A King's Decision

... battle. on the order of the King. without having warned their French and British comrades in arms, and opened the road to Dunkirk to the German divisions. M Reynaud does not spare the King. He reminds him of the help he sought and Was given, of his a ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 525 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Nazi Tanks Wrecked: Torpedo Boat Sunk

... near the same place. When a Hurricane squadron attacked a formation of 30 Heinkel and Dornier bombers between Calais and Dunkirk their protecting Messerschmitt 100's held off from the fight. The Hurricanes first shot down five, and probably seven of the ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HEARD OFF COAST

... could be seen bursting in the sky. The sounds of gunfire continued until 12.30 a.m. The activity appeared to be on the Ostend-Dunkirk-Calais coast. “We saw great flares as though bombs were exploding, and it seemed that guns were in action,” one watcher told ...