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While Flood Defences Are Held, Evacuation Goes On

... Held, Evacuation Goes On J)ESPITE continual attacks from the air and by longrange artillery, troops are still embarking from Dunkirk in large numbers and in perfect order. German infantry attacks across the flood region are held by infantry and marines with ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 343 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TWO BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIPS BOMBED: NURSES THROWN INTO SEA

... shells in Dunkirk —have been landed at a south-east coast port and handled and tended as carefuly as anybody's casualties. They have been given cigarettes, water, food, and tea, just as our own boys. These wounded were tended in hospital near Dunkirk by our ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 405 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Flanders Battle Nears

... special End, Say Nazis Berlin announcement about the alleged sinking of the 19 Allied ships and damage to 31 others around Dunkirk had added: All branches of the services joined in the attack, which was directed against more than ships. Three warships and ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 349 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CAUGHT IN RING OF FIRE pHE savagery of the Nazis could not better illustrated than this prim story told by

... Nazis could not better illustrated than this prim story told by a N.C.0.. and confirmed by men who arrived with him from Dunkirk to-day. On Saturday, while thousands of us were waiting for ships to take us off.” he said. one party of 20 found a rowing ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RAF. ATTACKS GO ON FROM DAWN TO DUSK

... RAF. ATTACKS GO ON FROM DAWN TO DUSK “At dawn this morning our fighter patrols over Dunkirk shot down 10 enemy fighters with the loss of one of our aircraft. Naval aircraft later B.E.F. Men Still Pouring Back To England O OUR by hour, members of the B ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1052 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MIDLAND MAN HELPED TO ROW 20 MILES ACROSS CHANNEL

... man who, until a few weeks ago, was a cinema manager in a* London suburb, to-day recounted his adventures in the inferno of Dunkirk. He responded to an appeal for men to help evacuate the 8.E.F., and was in charge of a small motor cruiser with two other ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 492 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Surrender Order To Army Against Ministers' Advice

... hardly succeeded their seniors, have already covered themselves with glory. “Surrendered Without Warning” was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French armies defended this port in the south and in the west; the Belgian Army in the north. “Our Faith ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 663 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

5,000 BACK FROM FLANDERS

... vealed the house of commons that in the epic withdrawal from u THE NAVY HAD EVACUATED OVER 335,000 AND BRITISH SOLDIERS FROM DUNKIRK. *hp • \ u^° ic defence of Calais only 30 wounded men l survived. The British brigadier had n hour to surrender he refused ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 664 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Germans Claim Armoured Car Set Fire to Warships

... The Air Fuice attacked the ports on the Belgian and French coasts which are still in the hands of the enemy. The docks of Dunkirk were set on tire. “On the South Front no events of importance. The attacks of the Air Force were directed against aerodromes ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 284 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Scribbled Telegrams –

... the men were still wearing steel helmets camouflaged with netting and sacking. or mud and sand-stained. We got away from Dunkirk. said one party, through a terrific hail of bombs and shells. All the time bombs were falling around us and bombers sweeping ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 262 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Onslaught

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

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 460 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Germans Claim Capture of Lille, Ostend and Bruges

... has broken down. The British Army which is concentrated in the area of Dixmude, Armentiers, Bailleul, and Bergues, west of Dunkirk, is facing complete destruction by our concentric attacks. In a swift push through Flanders German forces marched througn ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 447 | Page: 1 | Tags: none