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HOW LITTLE SHIPS RESCUED THE B.E.F. By EWART BROOKES

... HOW LITTLE SHIPS RESCUED THE B.E.F. By EWART BROOKES Daily Mirror Staff Reporter, who went to Dunkirk on one of the rescue ships FOR seventeen hours I lived in a hell—a hell from which we pulled out members of the 8.E.F., just some of the many thousands ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 282 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... said the Mayor. that he had received so far. BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT BACK to the slow waters and the lazy reaches, the Little Ships are home from Hell. They came back yesterday up London's river, dirty, damaged, pock-marked where the German bullets had ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 258 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

She's Grand !

... seventeen hours of rowing backwards and forwards from the boats to the beach under a downpour of death from the skies. The Little Ships have all got their tales of valour. Thames-side will sing them as long as the river flows. ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 292 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

WARTIME GIRL

... CHANCE OF FIRING SILVER BULLETS AT THE COMMON ENEMY A SHILLING FOR EVERY MACHINE-GUN BULLET THAT BATTERED THE DECKS OF THE LITTLE SHIP THAT WAS THEIR HOME. r a } ' ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 157 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

SCHOOL FAILUR DIED A HE AT DUNKIR

... cigarette as a naval officer amputated his shattered hand with a jack knife and scissors Bombs were falling all round the little ship off Dunkirk. Machinegun bullets spattered. This is one of many stories of heroism still being told at a southeast coast ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 890 | Page: 8 | Tags: none