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... DUNKIRK. THE CORUNNA LINE. Memory of an Epic Retreat. (By A MILITARY CORRESPONDENT, When the Allied Armies, withdrawing to the coast after the collapse of the main Belgian forces, placed a ring round Dunkirk and the adjacent coast the defended periphery ...
... EPIC OF DUNKIRK. How B.E.F. Was Saved. Broadcflsting to the nation on Sunday night Mr Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War, told of the succession of events which led up to all that will be. connoted in British history by the single word “Dunkirk.” “In ...
... things we have seen in their a resourcefulness, an inventiveness, a | fine flower in the exploit of Dunkirk. knack of adapting old and unexpected | Dunkirk was no victory—but it was an means to great and unexpected ends, a | earnest of victory. power to ...
... particular tribute to ,“Duisy,” the dauntless St. Combs fishermapn who,. serving on one of H.M. drifters, rescued: many men at Dunkirk by means of; (the shiplsy dinghy. Single-handed, he ran. his little: boat on the bomb-shattered beach': and pavaded wp and ...
... announcement. With it goes a deep sigh of sorrow for those who cannot return. Every man who took part in the retreat upon Dunkirk is a hero. He is now one with the veterans of 1914-18 who also faced fearful odds and came through unconquered. To such men ...
... that, under the protection of the Fleet and Air Force, four-fifths of the B.E.F. had been successfully brought over from Dunkirk, and the more difficult task of evacuating the valiant rearguard is in progress. May it, too, be achieved ‘ with maximum sueecess ...
... course of drilling. Many of them will go to camps for physical training. I know of soldiers, now young war veterans from Dunkirk, who trained in the use of anti-tank guns with models made from wood and gas piping. It served exceliently, as was proved ...
... elder surviving son, Major Frank W. Jack, was with the B.E.F. in the Battle of Flanders and the subsequent evacuation from Dunkirk. He was home on brief leave last week. The younger son, Harold, holds an important appointment in India. The elder daughter ...
... Major Frank W. Jack, who succeeded his father as the head of the business. Major Jack was through the inferno of Flanders and Dunkirk, and has returned to his unit after brief leave spent by his father's death-bed, I HAVE given in this column for some = time ...
... on the ground in the nemdroméa, we were accustomed to inflict a loss of two to two and a half to one. In the fighting over Dunkirk, which was a sort of No Man’s Land, we undoubtedly beat the German air force and gained a mastery of the local air, inflicting ...