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... became master of the sea coast of North Europe with an undisputed option on the South. Then happened the rearguard action of Dunkirk, and the miracle of the Battle for Britain, when we showed that we could take what was coming to us—and hit back with added ...
... Force attacked military targets in one German town—Dusseldorf —and others in the Belgian and French ports of Antwerp, Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne, together with aerodromes in enemy-occupied Holland, Belgium, and France. Of the kind of incidental ...
... Engineers. For many years an officer in the Territorial Army, he went to France in September 1939, and was evacuated from Dunkirk. Since then he has been serving as chief signal officer of an Army Corps. The Armv Council have agreed to release him from ...
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... ordina works. Fires were also started close to the U-boat refuelling wharves. Other targets included the ports of Antwerp Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne. Several aerodromes in enemy-occupied Holland, Belgium, and France were also bombed. Four of our aircraft ...
... fatally wounded. - Aircraft of our Bomber Command . bad 'during the night attacked the German-occupied ports at Boulogne, Dunkirk and Ostend, and industrial targets in the Rhineland including Ludivigslisven. One of our aircraft came down in the ‘sea. Units ...
... fires and ominous exploeons were caused at Mannheim, Essen„ and elsewhere, and heavy boinbers also raided the docks at Dunkirk. One of our aircraft failed to return. The Greeks were reported to be driving the. Italians in Albania towards the coast; ...
... tically, volunteered for duties requiring aggressive action. he went to Aldershot then to France. On June 4, just after Dunkirk and all that, Mrs Stirling received word that he was missing. After weeks of silence the postman one day delivered at ...
... billeted in F established Adv , for pose bombed in other relatives during were The representing Of these, and ago been . Dunkirk GUIDE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1940. 9 WAR CASUALTIES. NEW YEAR 1941 (sages from Arbroath Prisoners of war. When First Fittin' ...
... Writing of Ration Books On June 4, following the French debacle and the immortal feat of evacuation by the little ships from Dunkirk, Mrs James Stirling, 9 Victoria Street, received from the War Office the grim intimation that her brother, Signaller John ...
... opportunity of showing its quality beers). We have had hard and unfortunate experiences this war, but in the fighting round Dunkirk all the divisions engaged with the enemy were conscious that they were fully the match for their German opponents (Cheers) ...