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GALLANT FINAL STAND ON 'CORUNNA LINE'

... more German 'planes the northern front, according to a communique issued by the Cfcecho-Slovakia Agency. GREAT DEEDS BY LITTLE SHIPS BRITISH AND FRENCH WORK AS ONE It was emphasised in London to-day that the withdrawal of the forces from Flanders is a ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1426 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NAZI SOMME ATTACK FAILS

... long,” and “Look out. Hitler. We haven’t started on you yet.” Not for the first time in history, this a case where the little ships are doing great deeds. Every few minutes, long empty trains steamed into the South Coast ports and left crammed with soldiers ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 846 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Think Of These Men When You Eat Fish On The Home Front by June ,

... and the skipper was at the wheel.' it was a liberal education, that officer adds, to see the skippers handling their little ships when paosing mine sweeps in a gale of wind. In these days of rapid changes and new inventions it is apt to be forgotten ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1124 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GENERAL TELLS OF NARVIK CAPTUK

... collaborating in the task of evacuating Allied troops to Britain. Not for the first time in history, this is a case where the little ships are doing great deeds. Anglo-Italian Negotiations May Go On IT is thought in London that the Italian refusal to approve ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 902 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

DOUR DUNKIRK BATTLE CONTINUES

... collaborating in the task of evacuating Allied troops to Britain Not for the first time in history, this a case where the little ships are doing great deeds. ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 898 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

French Rearguard Men Reaching Dunkirk

... collaborating in the task of evacuating Allied troops Britain. Not for the first time in history this is a case where the little ships are doing great deeds. Paris, Saturday Following is to-day's official French communique : On land and sea and in the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 899 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Watchi NIGHT PATROL with the TRAWLERS

... speed. The blurred outline of the bridge comes into view, with the faint indications of funnels abaft it. _ One of the little ships which in peacetime steam across the fishing grounds, but which now help to police the seas, sets out from an . . East Coast ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 945 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNKERQUE SITUATION IMPROVES

... collaborating in the task of evacuating Allied troops to Britain. Not for the first time in history, this is case where the little ships are doing great deeds. Tribute To Lord Gort. General Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces, has never for ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 919 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Slaying at Bcxhill

... and minds involuntarily turned to the shore over the Channel where too cocksure enemy was being dished by great armada of little ships. A mental glimpse of the latest and most glorious British saga of the sea was afforded when a couple of craft, typical ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SATURDAY JUNE 29 1940

... And Britain stands to-day resolute for battle, as determined its war aims, and as unconquerable as when Drake and his little ships sailed out to defeat the Spanish Armada and thereby shatter another conqueror’s dream. AIR RAID ADVICE. It appears that ...

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... singteTTnonrent of-ai laborating in the task Allied troops to Britain for the first time in history this isa case where the little ships are doing great deeds lone the Lncli&n tonsue sur vives word Uunkurk win spoicen reverence?' A leading article in New ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2406 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Theatrical Helpers

... Reserve, and Roy’al Fleet With a plunge she went to the Reserve. bottom. In his words: “They came from battleships and little ships, from fishing vessels, sailing craft, yachts, barracks, offices, and cab-ranks. Hand-picked, disciplined, they were every ...