... three transports and one tanker have been sunk, and one destroyer severely damaged. Harbour works Dunkirk and Dover were bombed. German speedboats off Dunkirk sank enemy destroyer by torpedo. Activity of both Air Forces was limited by the weather. The ...

... husband's motor-cycle, but at Ostend there was no petrol to be had. they left the machine in the yard of a cafe and walked to Dunkirk, a distance of about 40 miles. When a girl, Mrs Gummerson came to England a Belgian refugee the last war, but she says the ...

... 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 ...

... managed to reach the French border, from whence the great trek of refugees began when the frontier was opened. We got train to Dunkirk, where we managed to get car. but we were forced to beg borrow, or steal petrol. After Rouen the road was one solid stumbling ...

... is meeting with resistance at Boulogne and the opposition should be stronger if the Germans attempt to push on to C,alats, Dunkirk, and the Belgian border. Also lit should be possible to bring air assistance, both fighter and bomber. Fairly quickly from ...

... and though we still have limited use came from Northern Ireland in of considerable public utility. of harbours like Calais, Dunkirk, January and had been living without The idea emanated from the Zeebrugge, and Ostend, little in the way either ration or ...