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Last DUNKIRK

... Last DUNKIRK AS long as the English tongue survives the word Dunkirk ' will be spoken with reverence. In that harbour, such a hell as never blazed on earth before, at the end of a lost battle. the rags and blemishes that had hidden the soul of democracy ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 987 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

ROTTERDAM OIL TANKS BY ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL RAID, THEY HAVE GIVEN INTENSIFIED COVER FOR THE BE.F. AT DUNKIRK—AND ..

... INTENSIFIED COVER FOR THE BE.F. AT DUNKIRK—AND HAVE DESTROYED OR BADLY DAMAGED A FURTHER 131 NAZI PLANES. This is how the Air Ministry last night added up the total of new enemy losses: Shot down on Friday over Dunkirk, 56 bombers and fighters. Destroyed ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 168 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FRENCH REPULSE TWO SOMME ATTACKS

... withdrawing towards Dunkirk had succeeded iln regaining the Allied lines. The number of these troops was not revealed. In the words of the official French communique yesterday, On land and sea and in the air the French and British forces at Dunkirk are continuing ...

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

MERfT FIRST MEETING WITH THE ENEMY AT VIMY: “WE HELD THEM” From Our Own Correspondent London Saturday wounded ..

... crossed in motor-boats to Dunkirk on Friday to carry troops from Dunkirk sands to destroyers and other vessels Home yesterday suffering from shock and exhaustion he told this story motor-boats taken across As we approached Dunkirk Roads German aircraft were ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2113 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... Germans and has joined the army o$Dun- kirk THE SCENE AT DUNKIRK This was the position at Dunkirk last night: Along miles of sand and sand dunes in the centre of this area of the bomb-flattened of Dunkirk British and French troops are waiting to be taken off ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Sunday Sun (Newcastle)
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 2276 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LEON, 12, IS SAFE NOW

... big for him, a French boy of twelve marched down the gangway with hundreds of French troops reaching a Channel port from Dunkirk yesterday. For three weeks he had been cared for by these battle-worn fighting men, who had found him lying exhausted by the ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 227 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BOY, 15, BRINGS TROOPS HOME

... BRINGS TROOPS HOME ABOY of fifteen and seventeenyear-old youths are among the volunteers who are bringing B.E.F. men home from Dunkirk. Refusing to stay behind, the boy of fifteen took his regular place in his father's motor-boat. For three days and nights ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 195 | Page: 4 | Tags: none