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LOSE 13 AIRCRAFT IN BRIEF BATTLE

... attack London. Only a few rough. Twelve German aeroplanes were destroyed. Lisewhere a Dornier bomher was shot down by ride fire Home Guard, making total of 26 enemy aircraft oyed yesterday. Two R.A.F. pilots are missing. THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS former ally, Italy ...

Published: Tuesday 12 November 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 486 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FIRED AT GUARDS

... FIRED AT GUARDS Near Calderwood Avenue they over took two men and stopped them. The taller man of the two took a revolver I from his coat pocket, pointed it at cnej of the guards, told him to get away.j and then fired a shot which missed. He next pointed ...

Published: Tuesday 26 November 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TO HOME GUARD

... HOME GUARD MANY CRATES OF GUNS AND AMMUNITION CARGO of rifles, revolvers and ammunition, the first of hundreds of ■ usands that aye being collected 'in homes America, has just arve,l England. The arms were disced yesterday to members of the .. Guard on ...

Published: Thursday 14 November 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 642 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOME GUARD SENTENCED

... stated that when an enemy nlane crashed at Pitsea Nicholls was mistaken for a German. N , rris, a Home Guard, came up with a r* - - a shot was fired. and Nicholls fell. Another man who was near was also fatally shot. Harris later said that what happened ...

Published: Tuesday 05 November 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GOES STILL DOWN WITH FIRING

... and guarded by posse of volunteer guards from among ihe passengers. The captain radioed for a warship to take them off they were alarm- the passengers -the ship’s full complement. H.M.S. Slavol. an Admiralty oiler, pul to sea with a Marine’s guard and ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 871 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HAIL OF MACHINE-GUN FIRE

... salute their comrades, only to be met with a hail of machine-gun fire from the Greeks, whom• they had mistaken for the missing Italians. Two Italian planes were brought down by machine-gun fire. Among the captives from these planes was a major from the Italian ...

Published: Tuesday 05 November 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 432 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SHIPS FIRED IN R.A.F. ON DURAZZO

... SHIPS FIRED IN R.A.F. ON DURAZZO the R.A.F. pounding at their bases and communications and Greek advance units harrying their front, the Italians yesterday continued their retreat in Albania. An entire Italian division has been broken in disorder, and ...

Published: Tuesday 26 November 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1689 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DYNAMITE USED TO CHECK FIRE EIRE WOOLLEN MILLS DESTROYED FAMILIES HOMELESS Woollen mills were destroyed; a ..

... DYNAMITE USED TO CHECK FIRE EIRE WOOLLEN MILLS DESTROYED FAMILIES HOMELESS Woollen mills were destroyed; a private school, a hall, and some private houses had to blown up by the military authorities in order chock a fire which caused damage estimated ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

%M. AGM% AN PLACING CATHEDRAL SERVICE. Home Guards proceeding to Dromore Cathedral THE L.D.V. WREATH ON THE for ..

... the British naval, military, and air mission were present. £lOO,OOO FIRE NEAR DUMBARTON. SEVEN SHOPS DESTROYED. OWNED BY CO-OP. SOCIETY. Damage estimated at £lOO,OOO was caused by fire which destroyed seven shops belonging to the Vale of Leven Co-operative ...

Published: Monday 11 November 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2101 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THI WORLD'S BIOQCST SHIR-the QuMn lllubath—Mtn In Iwr Hintasn Rlvtr r«fug«. Work i« In progmn on h«r lid* nur ..

... progmn on h«r lid* nur water alga. Ttia French liner Normandie Use alangalda. In the foreground •lit Of many polio# dotallod to guard tho plort. (Associated Press Photo.) BANK CLERK ACCOUNTS FOR THREE RAIDERS Won D.F.C. and Promotion HL'HRICANE pilot otflcer ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1030 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CHALLENGE TO HALT

... Driver Lovegrove were on guard. He had heard challenges to stop from the other end and two shots. The lorry was swinging from side to side. Three or four challenges to halt by Driver Lovegrove and witness were unheeded, and witness fired a shot with the intention ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Alerts

... Neither of the two British machines were lost in action against the Italians. A Dornler bomber was shot down by a Home Guard with rirte fire near a Midland town. ...

Published: Tuesday 12 November 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 43 | Page: 5 | Tags: none