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R.A.F. PILOT ENTERTAINED BY PRINCE

... torpedo boat. On board the fishing smack there were 16 German Air Force prisoners. RUNNING FIGHT running fight followed. The little ship had one Lewis gun, and a small number British troops on board had a machine-gun. With these the enemy was driven off, after ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SINKING OF THE ABUKIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN MACHINE GUNNED IN WATER

... kaving Ostend the Abukir was bombed incessantly but not hit. Then the continual air attacks suddenly ceasedbecause the little ship bad entered an area in which a German U-boat operating. At 1 15 a.m, next day the track of a torpedo was clearly seen passing ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Journal of Commerce
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOW THEY GOT HOME

... torpedoed by German boat. On board the fishing smack there were 16 German Air Force prisoners. A running fight followed. The little ship had one Lewis gun, and a small number of British troops on board had a machine gun. With these the enemy was driven off ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 440 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOW THEY GOT HOME

... German torpedo boat. On board the fishing smack theie were 16 German Air Force prisoners. A running fight followed. The little ship had one Lewis gun and a small number British troops on board had a machine-gun With these the enemy was driven off. after ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FIFE BELIEF SCALES

... Brave tales will yet be written. , thank God for our “Jolly Tars. Who brought our troops to Britain. And for each big and little ship That proudly joined the fray. To make the Natis lose their grip. And rob them of their prey. Our Air Force covered the retreat ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 374 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

How They Got Horae

... German torpedo boat. On board the fishing smack there were 16 German Air Force prisoners. A running fight followed. The little ship had one Lewis gun and a small number of British troops board had a machine gun. With those the enemy was driven off, after ...

FRENCH REPULSE TWO SOMME ATTACKS

... French and British. They are working with a unity and a steadiness never excelled in military history. Ships of both nations—little ships and big ships—are collaborating in the tremendous task of getting the Allied troops safely across the Channel. In Paris ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 721 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

There goes the General's wife again—she's a kleptomaniac

... thought that .they had drawn clear of the danger area. But it turned out that the bombers had only drawn off because the little ship had entered an area in which a German U-boat was operating. At 1.15 a.m. on May 28th the track of a torpedo was clearly ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Reveille
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 775 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Three Famous “Characters” of Long Ago Recalls the Doings Wullie Teetie How They Got Home at a Funeral A week

... German torpedo boat. On board the fishing smack there were 16 German Air Force prisoners. A running iignt followed. The little ship had one Lewis gun and a small iniber British troops on board had a machine gun. With those the enemy was driven oil. after ...

CONTACT J&br' . WITH THE AIR FRONT

... German torpedo boat. On board the fishing smack there were 16 German Air Force prisoners. A running tight followed. The little ship had one Lewis gun: and a small number British troops on board had machine-gun. With those, the enemy was driven off, after ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 792 | Page: 3 | 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

A group of vourg people. members of the Service of Youth movement. who will be the leaders in their respective ..

... movement. Photo: Shepherd. Wadebridge. IT SEEMS TO ME LET US PRAY UNDAUNTED WE WILL FIGHT IBy H. L. Gee) Long years ago a little ship halfway across the Atlantic fell in with an enemy privateer. The larger vessel bore down upon the smaller, and all hope ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Cornish Guardian
County: Cornwall, England
Type: | Words: 920 | Page: 4 | Tags: none