The Archive · 1940

Soldiers from Dunkirk Tell Graphic Story of Retreat

Men Waiting for Embarkation on Exposed Beaches; Triple Form of German Attack on Infantry A South-East Port on the British Coast, June 2.

CONTINUAL thunder of heavy guns rolling across the English Channel last night indicated that Allied warships standing off shore from Dunkirk were sending salvoes of shells into German troops attempting to halt the Allied evacuation from Flanders.

The latest troops of the B.E.F. to arrive here pieced together the scene that is being enacted at Dunkirk, where all types of vessels have been brought into action to evacuate the "lost Allied

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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