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A DUNKIRK MEDAL?

... A DUNKIRK MEDAL? The War Office does not know of any grounds for the statement printed a London newspaper that & Dunkirk Medal to be awarded to soldiers who served Prance between September, 1939, and the collapse Prance. Such a medal (says a writer In ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

R.A.F. Bomb Convoy

... bombers of the raids directed out’a series of chi from Rotterdam to Dunkirk. against coastal objectives A convoy of 12 merchant ships escorted by war vessels was sighted close inshore near Dunkirk during the morning, and attacked from a low level, High explosive ...

Published: Friday 04 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DAY RAIDS BY LONE NAZI

... Association in France until after the evacuation from Dunkirk, pleaded objections to combatant service. Sydney Atkins, New biggin. Hornsea. who said he was evacuated from Brest month after the Dunkirk evacuation, added that objected to combatant service ...

Published: Monday 21 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

RAIDS ON GERMANY

... and rail communications Bremen, Elirang, Mannheim and Brussels,, docks at Cnivhaven and Amsterdam, Channel posts of Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne and Havre, and several enemy aerodromes. ' Aircraft of Coastal Command operating with Fleet Air Arm •lltacked ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

If Germans Land

... War, military education and training Every importan: in the superbl: retreat of the BEF. Pienders and the evacu- ation from Dunkirk directed from this War Room, in close collaboration with the directional in those two other rooms at the Admiralty and the ...

Published: Friday 04 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE YORKSHIRE EVENING POST* TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1940

... James East, was a member the liner's crew since she was commissioned nine years ago and was on one the ships engaged the Dunkirk evacuation. A single German aircraft dropped five bombs, said, several of which fell on the ship. happened about a.m. ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ALL-NIGHT ATTACKS

... goods yards at Emmerich, Munster, Hamm, Bottrop and Duisburg; power station at Hamburg, the Channel ports Flushing, Ostend, Dunkirk and several enemy aerodromes were attacked by strong forces aircraft which operated throughout the hours of darkness. One ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEW SPIRIT IN BRITAIN

... wonderfully It has stood the test. We thank God for the courage of our Navy, Army and Air Force, and for the great deliverance Dunkirk. We thank God for the skill and amazing heroism of the Air Force repelling the attack the enemy on our country; lor the ceaseless ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PLASTERED OVER 100 BOMBS DROPPED R.A.F. Also Blast Other Targets

... Mannheim, em berg and several enemy aerodromes; ports and shipping at Lorient, Cherbourg, Dieppe, Boulogne, Calais, Gravelines, Dunkirk, Ostend, Zeebrugge and Rotterdam, and the gun emplacement at Cap Gris Nex. One of our aircraft is missing. According to reports ...

Published: Tuesday 08 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SHIPPING LOSSES

... for the week ended June 33. when the total was 209,084 tons, but that included the loss of ships during the evacuation from Dunkirk. The average loss for the previous 58 weeks has been 57,000 tons. Although our losses were great, the Germans claimed to have ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

convoy off the French coast. One

... missing. Bombs Among Ships The Air Ministry News Service describes how one of our bombers yesterday. sighted, four miles off Dunkirk, a convoy of 12 to 15 armed cargo vessels. They were escorted by E boats and were travelling line astern in two ranks. The ...

Published: Tuesday 22 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Fire Havoc

... harassing attacks against potential invasion bases on the Dutch and French coasts. The French ports Havre. Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk, and the North port of Flushing were all attacked by relays aircraft, which pressed home their operations under Intense fire ...

Published: Wednesday 02 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 6 | Tags: none