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Belfast News-Letter

20 IN FOUR HOURS

... British casualties, states the Air Ministry news service. A continuous air battle was fought over the French between Calais and Dunkirk. Pilots reported that the sky was filled with aircraft. One formation Junker was try. ing to bomb ships when Spitfire squadron ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SAY NAZIS

... this resistance. On the coast of Belgium and Northern France our Air Force again bombed the ports of Zeebrugge, Ostend, and Dunkirk. In Ostend an ammunition dump and a naval depot were set on fire. One transport was badly damaged During the night from Friday ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BRITISH GO TO AID OF BELGIANS

... claimed yesterday that they had taken Calais after violent fighting, but this was denied both by the British and French, Dunkirk, Ostend and Zeebrugge are also solidly held, it is stated. Last night’s French communique said that Boulogne had fallen to ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 810 | Page: 5 | Tags: none