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RETREAT TO COAST GOES ON NAVAL GUNS GUARD DUNKIRK

... RETREAT TO COAST GOES ON NAVAL GUNS GUARD DUNKIRK FIGHTING in Flanders reached rare pitch of violence during the night, declared the French military spokesman, when the Germans threw into the battle the full weight of forty divisions—more than a million ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 1 | 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

FRENCH FIGHTING CLEAR

... literally banned the air over Dunkirk to German 'planeo. A second force of General Prloux’s army has arrived in the region the hills and is trying to cut its way across, while the large remnants are a little way behind. At Dunkirk the combined Allied air forces ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 581 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMANS “ CORUNNA LINE” VERY LARGE ALLIED ARMY ALREADY OFF

... French and British troops from Dunkirk goes on. Figures of evacuation are not permissible but it is stated that they are very large. Allied troops are continuing to hold out solidly, not only in the fortified area of Dunkirk, almost completely surrounded ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

8.E.F., INTACT, ARE WITHDRAWING TO COAST

... 8.E.F., INTACT, ARE WITHDRAWING TO COAST DUNKIRK AND CALAIS, STILL HELD THE B.E.F. ARE STILL INTACT TOGETHER, AND HAVE WITHDRAWN MILES TOWARDS THE COAST. UP TO LAST NIGHT THE FRENCH STILL HELD CALAIS. DUNKIRK HAS BEEN HEAVILY BOMBED, BUT IS NOT YET DIRECTLY ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRITISH RESISTING STUBBORNLY, SAY NAZIS BERLIN, Friday. rpe-DAYS German High Command communique states: While ..

... broken in short time. , • The attack against the rest of the British Army in the loop between Fumes. Bcrgues and west of Dunkirk is The loop is only a lew miles deep, flat, and has been flooded. . . . The enemy is resisting here stubbornly, the aim ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Kmp smHinsl Tharfi iw nmt M urg* Ilia upa* llmm B.K.F. MMMlttw at Whittinsham Emarganay HaagiUl, aa thay gathar ..

... inferiority in numbers by nan-owing its front. Th* part at Dunkirk It Ml trenched camp, krmly haM ant •upparted by Iha haavy guns at Iha Flaal. German attacks south-west ward from Bruges, aimed Dunkirk, have encountered fierce resistance. It is to be noted ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1171 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

South-East Gunfire

... The sound of Riinflre w«i heard early to-day from the South-East Coast coming apparently from the direction of Calais or Dunkirk. It was beard at Intervals over a period of about taro hours and at times was aery rapid. There were also heavy detonations ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZIS CLAIM OSTEND AND LILLE

... has broken down. “The British Army, which concentrated in the area of Oixmude. Armenticrcs. Ballleul and Bergues. west of Dunkirk, faring complete destruction our concentric attacks. In swift push through Flanders German forces inarched 'hrough Bruges ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 106 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LIESE FORTRESS

... g about 23.000 tons. One destroyer was badly damaged by bombs. Tin Gentian Air Faro* also snoesaw fully bambad tha parts Dunkirk and Dover. German high-speed boats torpedoed and sank an enemy destroyer oil Funkirk. “In general the activity of the air ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMAN PLAN LOOKS LIKE KING FOILED

... has nothing Hhs ft ths entire taxon army dsssrtsd Napelssn in the middle of ths battle of ths nations at Leipzig. DUNKIRK MKHACEO Dunkirk, which was covered the north bv the Belgians, must now be regarded as menaced. Is it still possible to create a fortified ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 397 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GAP CLAIMED

... Bourgvillc are German hands. The German Air Force bombed the communication line leading to Zeebrugge. Nieuport. Ostend and Dunkirk, well tne ports and ships in the ports. An enemy destroyer was hit a bomb between Calais and Dover. the Southern front enemy ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 1 | Tags: none