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R.A.F. Shoot Down 22 Planes in Battle Off Dunkirk

... R.A.F. Shoot Down 22 Planes in Battle Off Dunkirk TN a tarrffla air battla over the Franait ooatt naar Dunkirk last night a formation ol Hurrleanaa and Dahants shot down of a large fore# of German bombers and lighters This was stated an Air Ministry ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 528 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Nottingham MP.’s Ordeal In Dunkirk S. F. MARKHAM, who returned from Sunday, visited the .;nmons yesterday. .r ..

... ’s Ordeal In Dunkirk S. F. MARKHAM, who returned from Sunday, visited the .;nmons yesterday. .r.Umg experience of the f port in consei jdent with his unit ; fell on him, . both his legs so he , . charge of a large parly lived at Dunkirk the \v.t> raiding ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 423 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

>Uls WARN BRITAIN

... and temporary earthworks. Dunkirk has been heavily bombed, but yesterday the town was not directly threatened. Lille Taken A Paris statement last night mentioned ** Allied naval forces firmly holding the fortified area of Dunkirk, while a military spokesman ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 995 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BATTLING THROUGH MANY SAFELY HOME

... cut off the French troop,. The entrenched camp of Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The flooding of regions around Dunkirk has now been accomplished. The whole of the area the south-west Dunkirk, from the neighbourhood of Gravelines almost to ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 2053 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

German Exhaustion

... planes and about 2.000 out of 5.000 mechanised units. On the ground, the one fixed point in this new phase of the battle is Dunkirk. all other points the fierce fighting is being carried on In the utmost confusion caused by King Leopold's defection. It is ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 122 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

IMMORTAL MEMORY

... savara last of anary quality that counts among aoldlara. The courses open to the Northern Army are painfully few. So long Dunkirk can be held some, Ur. Duff Cooper Indicated last night, may be extricated by sea Now that aU responsibility to the Belgians ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 168 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

REF. FACE SEVERE TEST

... fairly be said until last night so long as the Allied Army in the north did not break, and while it woe being supplied through Dunkirk, it woe inflicting very heavy casualties the enemy, and fairly cheaply. In matter at days it had a fair chance being relieved ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 193 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TENDERS CTTT OP NOTTINOHAM EDOCATIO*

... Derhj-rd*d EXTERNAL Bath-itrect Council School. DuUtU Roll Council School. Uvton-drUr cottnmoro Council School. Cotunaorc-rood. Dunkirk Council School. Mentpcllcr-rond. Forater-tlrctt Council School. Radford. Havdn road Infants' Council School, Burnham street ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 282 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

I.A.F. Pilot’s Day Out Shot Down Four Planes-Baled Out and Swam TiU Picked Up A flfhttr pilot on R.A.F. ktfitor

... itoamor and landed at Marge::. The sergeant's report on the event? reads; I was irr a formation of nine aircraft patrolling Dunkirk. We sighted nine Messerschmitt 109 fighter? and dog light ensued. A Messerschmitt 109 started climbing away from me. 1 opened ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 355 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

7,000 Parachutists Were Killed in Holland

... stated that some indication of the nature this movement may be given to-day. Although King Leopold’s action opened the road to Dunkirk to the Germans, the Allied command has never lost its coolness for a moment. The watchword immediately went out: “The British ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 515 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“Desperate” Fighting In Flanders

... Lilia has brokan down, “Tha British Army, which la concantratad In tha area Dlxmuda, Armantiars, Baillaul, and Barguas, west Dunkirk, la lacing complete destruction by our concentric attacks. “In a swift push through Flandar* German terea* marenad through ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 460 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Communiques

... Bourgvllla are In German hands The German Air Force bombed the communication line loading to Zeobrugge, Nleuport, ostand, and Dunkirk wall the ports and ships in the ports An snemy destroyer was hit by a bomb between Calais and Dover. On the Southern Front ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 853 | Page: 6 | Tags: none