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DUNKIRK

... the coast, a steady stream of arms and supplies is going into Dunkirk from a large number of ships. Supreme Courage French marines and British naval engineers went ashore and transformed Dunkirk into an armed camp. German bombing squadrons, trying to smash ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 359 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Supplies to Dunkirk

... Supplies to Dunkirk THE French and British troops that are fighting in Northern France are maintaining with a heroism worthy of their traditions a struggle of excep- tional intensity For a fortnight past they have been fighting battle separated from the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 396 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

B.E.F. HOL WAY TO SEA

... reached Dunkirk. The remainder of their comrades were following. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The flooding carried out south-west and north-east of the entrenched camp is now effective. All the area to the south-west of Dunkirk, from the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

I and peding hr LATE NEWS Prioux's Army

... Prioux's Army Reaches Dunkirk PARIS. Thur-day.—The vanguard of General Prioux's Army. concisiing of two divisions. has blasted its way out of the German trap in Flanders by mean% of a furious tank battle and has reached Dunkirk. a French military authority ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

IGHT FOR HOUSINDS 110

... totalling only about 270,000 men. But the Allied soldiers held on to their positions along the Yser—a semicircle to the east of Dunkirk. At other points they withdrew so slowly that the Germans had to struggle for every yard. The Germans flung advance forces ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 308 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Bir.uiu HAY 10 SEA

... have reached Dunkirk. The remainder their comrades were following. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The flooding earned out south-west and north-east of the entrenched camp is now effective. All the area to the south-west of Dunkirk, from the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 372 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

BRIDGE DESTROYED

... BRIDGE DESTROYED Our force bombed Ostend. Dunkirk. Nieuport and Blankenberghe and the roads and railways leading to these ports and their harbours. At Dunkirk a harbour bridge was destroyed. Between Calais and Dover an enemy destroyer was hit with a ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

On It/ l*nrl

... It/ l*nrl Dunkirk was the only port at Lord Oort’s disposal, and it was being severely and continually bombed. So long as Dunkirk remained in British possession there was a fair prospect of the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Belgium and Northern France ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 238 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

11. E.F. Fights To Coast

... towards the coast Dunkirk was being fortified by French and British naval engineers. The Admiral commanding the operations there was satisfied with the supply situation. Ships arc reported taking a steady stream of food and war supplies Dunkirk,” the spokesman ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

RAE AND NAVY PLANES STRIKE

... they could fight on with the British and French soldiers. The R.A.F. fought off the enemy's air attacks on Dunkirk's communications. Near Dunkirk a formation of Hurricanes and Defiants tore into big forces of German bombers, heavily escorted by fighters ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 326 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

SAY- “PRIOUX IS TAKEN”

... insisted that none of the|ceeding! French forces had surrendered aombed übmarin dux’ vanguard, two divisions olasted its way to Dunkirk through the German columns which strove to cut Its line of retreat near Cassel. it was stated. The rearguard was following ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 166 | Page: 1 | Tags: none