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GERMAN CLAIMS

... BERLIN, Tuesday.—The following special announcement by the German High Command was issued this evening :— The fortress of Dunkirk has been taken after fierce fighting. Forty thousand prisoners and booty which cannot yet be estimated have fallen into our ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 393 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

AROUND AN

... The destroyers are the Navy’s utility craft. Nothing comes amiss to them. Let nope that full details of their work in the Dunkirk evacuation will be told by someone able to do justice to such a story. a friend’s book of cuttings, dating from the last war ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FIRST NIGHT BATTLE OF THE WAR

... Channel are being foiled by German air attacks against those Channel ports which are still in the enemy’s hands. The Port of Dunkirk was destroyed by fire No important events the Southern Front.—Reuter. B.E.F. NOT BEATEN. HOW THEY HELP FRANCE ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 393 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BELFAST TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1940. RESTRICTIONS ON LUXURIES THE NEW REGULATIONS MARRIASES. AND DEATHS ..

... WILLIAM D;;;;:y7,7.:::::y Ms Uncle, Aunt and cousias. •. 84 Illtegoneln Avenue. SOOT T—flay 21, 1540. allied in action at Dunkirk. swain o. 5,eut., alien n yaan. son oz t.. t.. and the ALM IL U. alaitoen Louse, °tramline. btu sit. THOMOSON—Junit 3, ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

IF INVASION COMES

... forty-eight hours at his home-. Special leave is to granted to all ranks of tbs Royal Navy who took part iii the evacuation Dunkirk- ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS HIT

... works were successfully bombed. R.A.F. BAG 169 NAZI PLANES IN THREE DAYS. three days of continuous air liattles over the Dunkirk beaches, British fighter pilots accounted for 169 enemy ’planes, losing themselves 37 Friday’s total was 56. On Saturday 78 ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

R.A.F. BEAT NAZI AIR FORCE

... R.A.F. BEAT NAZI AIR FORCE (By arrangement with Daily Telegraph.) THE FULL DRAMATIC STORY OF THE DUNKIRK EVACUATION, A MIRACLE OF DELIVERANCE, FOLLOWING A COLOSSAL MILITARY DEFEAT, WAS RELATED BY THE PRIME MINISTER TO A TENSELY ATTENTIVE HOUSE OF ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1038 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ARMS AND THE MAN

... them, killing the child. GO TO IT ! “A MIRACLE OF DELIVERANCE 335,000 B.E.F. AND FRENCH EVACUATED MR. CHURCHILL'S STORY OF DUNKIRK In the British Howe rf Commons Tuesuav the I’rirt.e Minister, Mr, Winston Churchih, revealed in his promised that, bv hat ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 966 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SENATOR PITTMAN'S VIEWS,

... is a bright as well as a dark side to the war picture. The successful evacuation of 335,000 British and French troops from Dunkirk notwithstanding all the enemy's efforts was an achievement of which the nation has a right to be proud. It could not have ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 975 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CORRESPONDENCE

... swimmers to reach the ships—lt seldom calm In the Channel. We have read of a thick thunder cloud hanging only 500 feet above the Dunkirk quays, ' which screened our boys from the bombers. A kindly wind gathered a mantle of smoke and spread it above the beaches ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1096 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... which cur tanks to support every infantry attack, the German soldier of to-day is physi- and that there mightcome away from Dunkirk. That feeling tle danger that ought to be maintained. If there are - infantry would come to feel that they people in Britain ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 528 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

STATION CROWDS CHEER BJE.F. CHILDREN GIVE TROOPS SWEETS WOMEN and children in their Sunday best crowded station ..

... streets near the railway lines to pay their tribute the tired but cheerful fighting men. The stream of troops evacuated from Dunkirk had continued at full flow throughout the night. Several rompemee of French regiment marched off the landing quay with military ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: 3 | Tags: none