Air Force today moved swiftly in a desperate effort to rescue the battered armies in Flanders whose fate was teetering on the brink of the English Channel.
Under the screen of an intense curtain of fire by long range naval guns and bombing by the R.A.F., the British Expeditionary Forces was backing out through the Dunkirk area.
The British soldiers were pressed by German forces who were reckless in their onslaught to cut off the evacuation of the British. The German attacks grew to such a stage of intensity that they were reaching over the channel as German bombers roared high over the area and drop-[ped a continual rain of bombs on Allied troops, warships and even Eospital ships.
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