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1 June 1940 (8)

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R.A.F. Dawn Patrol Over Dunkirk Bags 19 Nazis

... R.A.F. Dawn Patrol Over Dunkirk Bags 19 Nazis Miners Work Before Play T EICESTERSHIRE miners are working full shifts to-day to assist Britain’s effort to produce more coal. This means that the men do not come out of the pits till half-past two. . Cricket ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 72 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

100,000 ARE REPORTED EVACUATED

... remains in Flanders. The path of retreat to Dunkirk is still open, though the Germans have redoubled their efforts to cut off the Allied rearguard. Rising flood waters have foiled the enemy attack on Dunkirk. ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 144 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DESTROYER SURVIVOR TELLS OF NIGHT SINKING

... Platting, Manchester, was asleep on the searchlight platform of a destroyer. For hours the vessel had been plying between Dunkirk and a S.E. coast port bringing back hundreds of young B.E-F. soldiers. went to bed. About 4 a.m. there was a banging on the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 396 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FRENCH

... FRENCH French and British land, sea, and air forces continue with complete solidarity at Dunkirk their bitter fight to resist the German drive and to assure evacuation. The enemy showed the importance they attached to the passage of the Somme by coun ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 198 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GERMAN

... on both sides of Dunkirk which is meeting with stubborn resistance in very difficult terrain is making good progress. Despite the bad weather our air force made further successful attacks yesterday on troops disembarking at Dunkirk and intervened in ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 528 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TORPEDO BOAT IS SUNK

... TORPEDO BOAT IS SUNK A DAWN patrol of R.A.F. fighters over Dunkirk beaches, the Air Ministry announces to-day, shot down 14 Nazi fighters and seriously damaged five more. One Spitfire squadron in a few minutes accounted for six Messerschmitt 110’s, three ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 100 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Rearguard’s Last Stand

... Already large units of General Prioux’s army, which has been fighting rearguard action back from Lille, have reached the Dunkirk fortified area and are taking part in its defence. An important section of General Prioux’s army has, however, not yet been ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 184 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Are Fighting Men Coming Now rp O-DAY it is men of the fighting regiments who have been pouring A into the ..

... their thousands- According to some estimates only a division of Allied troops now remain in Flanders. The entrenched camp of Dunkirk, reinforced by the arrival of considerable numbers of the Allied armies in Flanders, including small numbers of Belgians, ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 210 | Page: 1 | Tags: none