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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

GERMAN CLAIM TO HAVE BOMBED DOVER TODAY'S German High Command communique states : German forces are slowly ..

... badly damaged by bombs. Th. German Air Force also successfully bombed the ports, Dunkirk and Dover. German high-speed boats torpedoed and sank an enemy destroyer off Dunkirk. Off Narvik (Norway) a battlecruiser was hit and a transport of 3,000 ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 179 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SUPREME DUEL T HE supreme Anglo-German duel is about to open, says Messaggero today, adding that the opening ..

... that the opening shot will come from German long-range guns at Calais. Popolo di Roma, commenting on German repbrta that Dunkirk and Ostend are threatened, declares that England is thus about to lose her last bridgehead on the Continent. 'The democracies ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 74 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OUR FLEET a SURE SHIELD

... SHIELD I .A ET us face the situation squarely. If Germany were to gain possession of the Channel ports—Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Ostend and Zeebrugge—how should we stand? Provided we had been able to withdraw our troops from the Continent, the answer ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 842 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GUNFIRE HEARD

... THE sound of gunfire was heard early today from the South. East Coast, coming apparently from the direction of Calais or Dunkirk. It was heard at intervals over a period of about two hours, and at times was very rapid. There were also heavy detonations ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 387 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

- LEICESTER MERCURY TUESDAY 28th MAY 1940 - ' -v ilReynaud SaY$— I ' STARTS 9 am TO-MORROW ! 4

... without and I must tell worked - la she I you but I find say good can voura truly 13 3- Tin BELGIANS HAVE OPENED WAY: TO DUNKIRK KOADCASTIXG to-day M Rcynaud the French Prime Minister said: must announce to French people a grave event which occurred during ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1420 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

- THE LEICESTER MERCURY MAY 1940 'V 5 Police Hurit-For r Boy In Vain Haired for AT' Clarfcanwell London Court

... to-day adding that tlie qpcnipg shot will from German long-range guns at Calais Popolo d'Rotna commenting on reports Dunkirk and 'OMcnd arc threatened declares that England thus about to lose her last bridgehead on the Continent - The Democracies ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1782 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IE— LEICESTER MERCURY' TUESDAY MAY Prizes iForAtgem PLATK of- ia ynnr-giiia luriopti CAN HII T FrmilurT1 ..

... been on the front MerviIIe bonrgvjl'le' in German liands The German Air Force the Jine leading to Zeebrugge Xieuport Ostend Dunkirk well the ports and in the ' ports - - hit r bom between Calais' and JOn enemy have repulsed In of thesefightf -30 enemy were ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1872 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THE LEICESTER MERCURY SATURDAY 25th MAY SALES BY AUCTION MARKET H iiiiil ami -M'IL Y Al'CTION MnXLAY S7ih 1940 10

... several -days before the Woods 4ook flight With the aid two and a push chair of eleven with countless other refugees walked to Dunkirk where they managed to get a boat for Dover are now little the worse for their mghtmareexperience of machine-gunning bombing ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2055 | Page: 4 | Tags: none