·:.•· . 2/614;0 PRE S s· NOTICE Sir John Anderson, Minister of Home See-urit·y has issued the following tall to fornier members of the Auxiliary Fire Sel'v1ce:­ "In mapy areas the Auxilia_ry Fire Service are in need of more trained men to make up the pump crews which must be kept manned, and to man ,. additional pumps in case of ·need. "Trained Auxiliary Firemen who have left the A.F.S. during these months of waiting and are able to rejoin for whole time duty are ul'ged to do so. In all areas, maintainance of the crews must depend largely on ~art time volunteers, and all trained riremen should be ready to give whatever time may be needed to maintain this vital service". ------~ MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY 'Y§:i..40 -No. 4. AERODROMES .AND PROHIBITED AREAS. All persons are warned that they should only approach aerodromes factories and other prohibited places, including field works, gun and searchlight emplacements by the recognised general entrance where they will be stopped and called upon to identify themselves. Failure to observe this warning may result in offending persons being fired upon. MINISTRY OF INFORMATION 2/6/l+IJ -NO. 5. · FOR MONDAY lIORNING PJIPEHS ONLY. l'~Q.~_'.i'O J.3E PUBLISHED ON CLUB TAPES, OR BY BROADCAST OR IN ANY OTHER WAY BEFOHE THE MOHNING OF HOND.AY, 3RD JUNE, 1940 The Ministry of l1cJYJur mid Natiorn.l Service announces that workers who are trn.nsferrea. in futm·e by the Departnent to o. new areo. to underto.ke work of urgent rn.tiono.l ir.1porto.nco, Do.y in. certain circuListo.nces be entitled to r eceive lodging o.nd travelling o.llm:n:mcese Lodging allowo.nces , payn.ble by the Ministry} vJiU be given only to a no.rried v>JOrker, (or an unr.'1.."UTied v>JOrker vd. th siuiln.r responsibilities) who continues to nainto.in a hone in the t own from which he is transferred, and vvhere the employer t o whor.i he is trnnsferred does not pay lodging or sir.:tilnr allowances under custono.ry pro.ctice or industrio.l agreement. The lodging allowances will be o.t the rate of 3/6c.~ a night (including Sunday) and wil]. be payable only in those co.ses where the new plo.ce of work is beyond reasono.ble daily travelling disto.nce fron the worker~s hone. It will be a condition of the paynent of l odging allowo.nces, that the enployer will b e r esponsible for providing certain free fares, and for the po.yraent of travelling tine at the begi_n:n:i.ng and end of the job. En.players and workers interested.9 r.ny obto.in further inforr.mtion at the Departnents l oco.l officeso :MINISTRY OF LABOUR N ID NATION.AI · SERVICE 2/6/40 -NO. 71 FREE LETTERS TO FRANCE FROM FRENCH SOLDIERS IN THE U.K. The War Office announces that letters to France from French soldiers in the United Kingdom wil] be accepted free of charge by the General Post Office if they are handed in by units, or by military or civilian hospitals, in packets which should be addressed "French Section, Army Post Office., 11 WAR OFFI©'E S~W. 1. AIR MlliISTRY BULLETIN No. 815 2/6/40 -No. 8 AIR MINISTRY NEWS SERVICE ROYAL AIR FORCE FIGHTERS' NEW RECORD Seventy-eight Nazi bombers and fighters were destroyed or severely damaged over the Dunkirk beaches between dawn and seven o'clock on Saturday. This sets a new day's record for our fighter pilots. Sixteen of our aircraft are missing. Squadron after squadron of Hurricanes and Spitfires flew high above the French fens all day, g~arding the convoys which were bringing the B.E.F. rearguard home. Huge formations of Nazi bombers escorted by fighters came out and attempted to sink the ships. They did not laclc targets, · for the sea was thick with craft of all kinds. But when theyattempted to bomb, our fighters attacked and drove them off. Most of the bombs fell into the sea. Many Junkers, Heinkels, Dorniers and Messerschmitts soon crashed into the sea after their bombs: 32 fighters were certainly destroyed. One of our Hurricane pilots disabled in combat with a Messerschmitt had to land on the beach. C:arrying his parachutehe walked 15 miles to Dunlcirk, got a lift home to Folkestone in a paddle-steamer, rejoined his squadron, and was out on patrol again the next day. The best bag on Saturday went to a Spitfire squadron which destroyed twelve German bombers and fighters in one short action. Later in the day this squadron went up again and shot down another six. It was a bad day for the Messerschmitts. Two of our ,._, fighter squadrons alone accounted for 23 of them. _ _. ______000-...---­ AIR AFFAIRS 2/6/Y;O .,_ N01 9. Bar Office (not to be quoted) reguest that the fQllowin~ be substituted for Issue N~, 2 to-day kOSSES INCURRED BY PARACHUT:q AN,D ~~Ji Li'..NDING ':iROOPS IN HOLLAND, It was estimated that the majority of the German parachutistsdropped in Holland were killed. Of 16 infantrymen in one machine, one prisone~ was the onlysurvivor. Twenty parachutists in one machine were all surrounded and taken prisoner immediately on l anding in Holland. (These men were armed Jnly w1th pistols). Of 10 infantrymen in one 'plane, 3 were killed in the air by A.A. fire, 4 more were shot on landingo The nearby airport was a mass of blazing German 'planes, O~ 8 infantrymen in one maehine, only t wo survived within halt an hour of landing, Large nurnbcrs of 'planes were lost and many men killed before or on landing. In one machine three out of ten men were k11led befol'e landing, but their losses after landing were slight. At one airfield, where fifteen to twenty German 'planes landed, a~l were destroyed and their landing troops killed. In another instance of 15 men in a 'plane all but four were killed or> wounded. They comprised the Divisional Staff, the chief of which, General Graf von SPONECK, was wounded together with a captain\nd a lioutenant. Al1 the 15 infantrymen in another 'plane were taken prisoner. MILlTARY AFFAIRS 2/6/40 -No• . 10. War Of'f'ioc not to be ql!?tca., "THEY l\TE~R ONCE GfiVE YU.Y~ 11 - BRIGADIER'S TRIBUT:J TO MEN WHO FOUGHT BliCK TO DUNKIRK• At 5 a.r.i, today a British infantry brigade was embarked fror.1 tho beach north of Dunkirk. It had been in the midst of the fiCThtine in Flanders from start to finish. It was amongstthe troops which led the advance into BelCTiwn; it fought in the rear-guard from the :furthest front reached by the B+E.F, to the gates of Dunkirk.. · "My men11 said the Brigadier on steppingashore in England "never once Gave way. They beat back every German attack, and every time they retreated it was when ordered and only as far as ordered, 11 On one day the brigade marched over 40 miles in ?14. hours~ HI LIT!ill.Y AFFAIRS~ 2/6L40 -No. l~ NOT FOR BROADCAST BEFORE 7 A. H. ON MONDAY, JUNE 3. Passed by Field Censor BOY AND GIRL BRAVE GUNS TO REACH BRITISH GERMANS SHOOT PARENTS From uEye-Wi tness" with the Allied Forces in Norway Somewhere in Norway, Sunday During the bombardment of Narvik recently an ancient skiff containing a boy and a girl was observed from the Allied flagship., Although the ships continued to fire, and despite the German machine-guns, the boy continued to row towards the flagshipwhile the girl baled for all she was worth. The boy and girl, who were obviously refugees, made the distance, although on arrival they were nearly in a state of collapse.. A midshipman assisted the girl to scale the Jacob's ladder and she was carried to the sick-bay in the sturdy arms of the deck officer., The boy, who reached the deck unassisted, explained that they were brother and sister. In an endeavour to prevent the refugees escaping to the British the Germans, he said, had shot his father, their mother and their brother before their eyes. Taken to the British base, the brother and sister made off inland hand in hand., -----000----­ AIR MmISTRY BULLETm No;. 816 2/6/lJ.O -No.. 13 ..... ·.. · ACTIVITY OF THE R.A.F • .. .. . _. .. ·'.­ The Air Minis.try. announces:­ Yesterday (Saturday) mediwn bombers of the R.A.F. continued operations in support of the rearguard action of the Allied aramies in Flanders. Repeated attacks were made on the enemy11 s lines of' conmunications, on roads and bridges, also on ammunition dumps and troops. DUring the night these operations were continued by heavy bombers of' the R.A.F~ other formations of' heavy bombers attacked militaryobjectives in Germany•• The marshallingyar4s at IFamm and Osnabruck were hit. At Rheine a column of motor transport was.blown up. A bridge in the same town was severely .damaged •. All these operations were . carried out without ,loss. . 'Illu'ee Hudson aircraft of the Coastal «r.omrnand, while engagedin operations over Dunkirk yesterday (Saturday) afternoon, attacked a formation of forty enemy bombers • . · Three were shot down, two dived away out of control .and two others .were damaged. The Hudsons were unharmed and continued their patrol.• . _ At dusk, other Hudson .aircraft carri~dout a successt'ul attack on Bergen. The wireless station was attac~ed,_ oil·tanks wel'e set on fire, and supply vessels in the harbour were bombed and .machine-gunned.. · Another .aircraft of Coastal <:rommand attacked a formation _of four·Heinke1 bombers and shot one down, Two .Coastal Gonnnand aircraft have failed to return .from patrol. our fighters attacked three enemy dive-bombers on the ground at Ostend and set them on fire, French fighters operating with the R.A.F. ·,accounted for three enemy bombers. , In the N arvik area on May 30th our fighters shot down nine enemy aircraft and probably destroyed two others• . r_rroday (Sunday) over the Dunkirk area aircraft of Fighter bnnand have continued their offensive patrols. . Reports so far rece~ve9. show that our fighi:.e:'s have destr.oyed thirty-tive enemy airuraft and probably a further six. Eight of our fighters are missing. . · -~-ooo-~--~ AIR @FAIRS AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN Imo 817 2. 6..40 Nb lL~ .etJ.r Ministry :mrews S~rvice WINS FIGHT WITHOUT AMMUNITION R.A.F. PILOT WORRIES JUNKERS INTO CRASH The superiority of British pilots over the Germans was stL·inkingly exemplified during the intense operations near Dunkirk on Saturday. A British fighter pilot, having been engaged in a number of combats, found himself out of ammunition then quite unexpectedly he found himself close to an enemy bomber. ]rtstead of making himself scarce the R.A.F. figher pilot at once manoeuvred skilfully and got on the Junkers tailo Then he worried the enemy so much by a succession of stunts that ultimately he made a fatal error in trying to turn and went crashing into the ground. Seldom can an unarmed pilot have gained a victory over a fully armed enemy. ++++H+++r++ AIR AFFAIRS War ,O'i'fice not to be qu.£1..ed BRITISH OFFICER'S ~OO_MILES _T~ROUGH GERMAN OCCUPIED COlJ~N..1:1R'{. Tank , An offlcer of the Royal Regiment serving ~ f,~ a Liaison O'ffice1~ with the ReA.F. reported for duty at GoH.Qo at Hazebrouck in the critical stages of the retreato He was ordered to make his way to Abbeville and establish a section South of the Sommeo He set out in a light car w:i th --a driver and a despatch ridero He drove for miles through the swirl and wreckage of the civilian ret,ugee flight. In many placeshe found bombed and machine gunned cars abandoned on the road side but he reached the bridge over the Somme at Port le Grs,nd, half-way between Abbeville and the seao As he was crossing, a Belgian civilian car in front of him was held up and looted by the German troopso He put his own car into reverse .and backed off the bridge under a hail of machine gun bullets from the enemy., His despatch rider was killed and_ his engine was wrecked. He and his driver jumped out and escaped into a wood; For a week they wandered a bout in country north of the river looking _for a chance to crosso Duririg daylight they hid., At night they searched for a bridge or a fex•ryo On one occasion they slipped into a German tank ha rbour and lay concealed for 12 hours under an enemy monstero TlJ,ey came across a par ty of Belgian soldiers of whom the Brit j_sh Officer took c orrunando Finally the officer and the dri ver, givinc up hope of any more certain means of crossing , plunged into the Somrne estuary near·its mouth at low tide; partly by rtading and partly by swimming and resting now and again on sandbanks, they reached, the southern shore•-The British officer and his companion h ::Ll driven in all for 100 miles thr ough country occupied by German troops;.. The .Belgians preferred to make themselves a raft and to drift out to sea on that,, MILITARY AFFAIR.§. 2/6/uO -N_o. 1~ BROADCAST B1:_._TI1Q S~Cff~Tl'tRY' OF_ STATE FOR \r.lhE,, ~-lllilHT HON. .ANTHONY EDEN In the B.B.C. Home Service at 9 p.m. on Sunday, June 2, 1940 ----------~----------~~-­ In the Battle of the Ports which has been raging during the past three weeks Germany has made great strategic gains.The loss to us in equipment and in material has been heavy, but there is now another side to this picture. The bulk of the British Expeditionary Force has been saved and quite apart from what the French have done for their own Forces, we have been able to bring tens of thousands of our French Allies off with us .from Dunkirk. Nor is the effort endedo Four days ago not one of us would have dared to hope that the isolated Allied Armies could have fought their way through the bottle-neck to the coast. It is the spirit of the B.E.F. that has won through.These men have marched hundred of miles; they have fought count­less actions with an enemy t~at herrnned them in and pressed uponthem from three sides. The German High Gorrnnand pro~dly announced that they were surrounded$ ']hey have fought their way out. How.• have they achieved the seemingly impossible?' Man for man the British troops have !'roved themselves superior to the Germans 1;herev~r they have met them. ill accounts show that the B.E.F. took a toll of the enemy greatly in excess of that suffered by themselveso On at least two occasions, at Arras and on the Ypres-Comines Canal, the losses suffered by the German PJ:a.my were very heavy indeed. So it is that at the last the German strategy' was foiled, and that despite the surrender of the Belgian Armg, our ovm troops and our French Allies with them have fought their way througho Let me now state the sequence of eventso At the call of the King of the Belgians the British E:;cpeditionary Force advanced into Belgium and took up its position on the River Dyle. The advance lasted several days. Through events it could not control our Army had to come back in less than half that time. It did so with little confusion and with few losses,, Seventy-five miles forward, a fight at the end of the advance, and 75 miles back, fighting all the way; all in the space of ten days •. That was the first phase of the Battle of the Ports and it was bttilliantly executed. I h2.ve heard of one Division which did not lose a single straggler on that 150-mile march• .Ari.d here is a quotation from an account of an eye-witness of ou:-troops under fire. "No display of drill at Olympia could be smarter than the work of men of our Forces that I saw. The feeling of confidence was magnificent.. " _.--­ -2 ­ And so the B.E.F, found itself back on the Scheldt with its streneth in men and material almost intact. But meanwhile the German mechanised columns were pouring through the gap to the south, advancing across our lines of comrirunication, biting even deeper into our back areas. Desperate efforts were made to stem the tide. Units who had been sent to France to supply some of the much .needed labour behind the lines were thrown into the fight and acquitted themselves splendidly. Others were sent to hold the Channel Ports in an effort I to keep open communications with the British ~xpeditionary Force. · The story of the Battle for Boulogn.e has already been told.· At Calais a small allied force put up a magnificent ~esistance~ in spite of repeated attacks by the enemy and of continuous air and artillery bombardment, the garrison held out for seYeral days. A summons to surrender was rejected by the British Cornnander.. His troops fought on. We now know, from ceptain i nformation which we have received, that this gallant defence drew off powerful German mechanised forces which rmist otherwise have been free to attack the flank of the British E~ditionary Force, at that time dangerously exposed. While these events were taking place near our own shores, the Expeditionary Force was fighting for its life in its retreat on Dunkirk. Mechanised forces already encircled its western flank and the collapse of the BelGian Arnry left open a wide gap between its eastern flank and the sea. There was no time to be lost.. Divisions were moved rapidly to hold the flanks and heavyfighting took place while the enemy tried desperately to cut off the allied·armies from the only base which was left to them. · Some troops marched 35 miles in 24 hours. British brigades on the flanks stood firm. Despite the enormously extended frontage they had now to defend -at one time the Expeditionary Force of 9 Divisions was holding a front of 80 r11iles -they held on, .and fought back• . On the west British troops defended the narrowing gap to the sea. Day after day the battle continued. -At the end of it they had fought themselves to a standstill, but held their · ground, and by doing so had enabled the remainder of the Expeditionary Force to cet clear. . On the east, Corps Artillery, · coming into action against the enemy massing for attack, ·inflicted such heavy casualties that the attack never developed• . The stories of individual explots at this time are legion -An anti-· tank gunner who l;::nocked out 7 tanks; a subaltern who, after knocking out hostile tanks~ swam a canal to bring back raarked maps and other booty• . But the triumph is not the triuniph of individuals however gallant; .it is the triumph of an Arnry. . There is no braver epic in all our annals. Here, then, .is the story of the Battle of the Ports.-From the moment of ·the collapse of the Belgian Army there was only one course left to the allied armies ~ to hold a line round Dunldrk, the only port that remained, and to embark as many men as pcssible l_?efo:e__their rea!'gu~rds were overvyhelmed• . Thanlts to the· mai:tnif'1­cont and untiring ·co-operatit>'"h ofl ·tl1e ·Allie.a· Navies·and Air f o~_ces ·WW have,.;bf?ell ab1e.. ~o u1.ibark...and>1eP,.~e more than f'our-fifths o-§ vhat ~~~tFt, whfich~the Germans cl~tme11 to hate surrollifdtd• thThe Ar'f!l3 s For~-~ 8a~·ge~g~ateNf~~o~~en. e w~r~~~~ b~!i{c~~-oel~ed ~oRa~~tr~~r much valuable material we have surrered casua~~ies once again our Ally has to bear tte invasion of the sacred soii of France, but the Gerrnans~ in spite of the huge losses which we know them to have sufferea, have failed i n their main object, to surrouna and annihilate the Allied Armies in the North, · The/ -3­ The British Expeditionary Force still exists, not as a handf.'ul of f.'ugitives but as a body of seasoned veterans. We have had great losses in equipment. But our men have gainedimmeasurably in experience of warfare and in self-confidence. The vital weapon of any army is its spirit. Ours has been tried and t empered in the furnaceo It has not been found wantingo ' It is this ref.'usal to accept defeat that is the guarantee of final victory. ~ur duty in this country is plain. We must make good our losses and we must win this war. To do that we must profit by the lessons of this battle., Breve hearts alone cannot stand up against steel. We need more planes, more tanks, more guns. The people of this country must work as never before. We must show the same qualities, the same discipline, and the same self-sacrifice at home as the British EXpeditionary Force have shown in the field. The nation honours with proud reverence those who fell that their comrades might win through. The innumerable actions, the countless deeQaof the last week, cannot all be recorded now. Each action will have its place in historyo Soldiers, sailors, airmen, who gave their lives to help, theirs is an irr.rnortal memory. Their spirit must be our banner, their sacrifice our spur. WAR OFFICE s'w•. 1. ', AIR .MINIST:g¥ BULLETIN No., 818 . 2j6/4.0,_-_.l!o•. 16 Air Mln.ist!'y N.ews Service. THREE HUDSONS DESTROY FIVE JUNKERS. Three American-built Hudson bombers went into action yesterday(Saturday) off :mun.kirk against forty enemy aircraft about to attack the transports bringing home the men of the B.E.F. ~he Hudsons were on :patrol when the flight leader s:pcttedwhat· he called "a patch of sky, black with jerrieso" The enemy formation was in three banks; . Junkers 87 and 88 ready to div_e on the transports :packed with troops, a stringof Heinkel 111'8 above them, and high overhead a guard of Messer­schmitt fighters. The Hudsons attacked at once and in thirteen minutes action three Junkers 87 dive bombers were shot down, two dived away out of control and the rest of the formation were driven offo The Hudsons escaped without even a bullet holeo The :pilot of one of the Hudsons, a South African whose brother was shot down in France a few days ago, took on eightJunkers.. He got two, one crashed into the smoking ruins of the Dunkirk oil tanks, the other fell in :pieces into the seao The Heinkels tried to bomb the Hudsons but without success. When the sky was clear again the Hudsons continued their :patrolo Soon the flight leader saw two drifting lifeboats full of troops, While one Hudson kept watch, the others flew away and signalled to two tugs which we:nt to the rescue. But before theyarrived the Hudson :pilot left on guard sqw eight Nazi bombers com~ out of the cloud and get into :position to bomb the lifeboats. He climbed 8nd flew straight at the enemy, and succeeded in driving them off, This flight of Hudsons already had five Dorniers and one Messerschmitt to its credit. ----000---­ . ' AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN N0.8190 Y.-?L4o No.. 18 Air Ministry News Serv :ce.. . BOMB JUST MISSES BLENHEIM IN THE AIRo Three Heinkel lll's were unsuccessfully bombing a merchant vessel off the Dutch Coast when a Blenheim of the R.A.F. Coastal Command, with a sergeant pilot as Captain, intervened. One falling bomb missed the Blenheim by only a few yardso Then three more Heinkels joined in, but when the sergeant pilot, \tith a short machine-gun burst, sent the leader crashing to the sea the others made offo Another Coastal Command aircraft was in combat with a Junkers dive bomber when it was attacked by eleven Messerschmitt fighters. The British pilot and gunner were killed and the aircraft set on fire. Nevertheless,the navigator managed to climb into the cockpit and land the burning aircraft on the sea near a ship that resuued himo When the pilot was killed the aircraft was only 800 feet above the sea. The navigator, after seizing the stick, was almost suffocated by dense smoke 9 flames were licking round him, and after hitting the sea he had to getrid of his parachute harnesso As he tried to .get out of the cabin, eleven Messerschmitts flew close overhead, machine-gunning him and the crew of the rescuing trawler. Only one German bullet did any damageo It made a hole in the navigator's trouser lego ++++++++ AIR AFFAIRS. ~o-No. 19..!. AIR MINISTRY BULLEI'Ur NO,. 82·0. Air :Ministry N mvs Service. Dramatic stories arc told of the air battles over 'che Dunkirk area. In these operations French fishters have been co-operating closely with squadrons of the R. A.F. Component, that is, ·the squadrons who all along have been co-operating with Lord Gort's Army and hitting the enemy hard. Incidentally 31 decorations have already been avrarded these squadrons for their share in the fighting since Hitler 1Jegan his drive to the sea. The Component squadrons have lllayed a notable part both in the protection they have been giving over the evacuation beaches at Dunkirk and in the sustained reconnaissances of their army Co-operational squadrons. Tales of the individual fighting over Dunkirk are legion. One pilot, in a series of dog-fights; found himself left ~vith no ammunition when t1qo }~esserschnrl:~t 109 's suddenly loomed up on his taiU For some time the British fighter twisted about trying to evade the Huns until one of the Messerschmitts also apparently out of ru:ununition, sheered off• TJie other Gennan kept on fir~ng sho~t bursts~ and although he was led a long dance by the Hurribahe he eventually ~creed the British fighter down to 500 feet and put a bUllet in his engine. Falling into the water three miles from the coasJc the British fighter turned over. 'l'he pilot blev1 up his "Mae West", as airmen call their life­saving jackets, and climbed on top of the machine. Then the Gennan came at him again, but the R.A.F. pilot was one too good this time. As the Hun turned he slipped into the water under the tail of his machine. The German neatly foxed, went off. .An hour later the flying officer was picked up by a sloop, and ·in twelve hours he was back aJc his own base none the worse for his series of thrills. Twisting and turning to avoid the ships, large and small, that were beached awaiting the D.E.F. another R.A.F. pilot who had fough~ with half-a­dozen Messerschrnitts landed at 120 m.p.h. just north of Dunkirk. In company vri.th another pilot officer he had been figbt:Uig three enemy scouts. He was just abou·t to dive on one when four more a1,yeared overhead. His comrade [;ave him a warning and dived in·to a cloud. But Ji;he message was not clear and the pilot was left to take Oh the four. "I had been fighting the leader of the other three" said the Officer. "I got in a l)urst which I am pretty certain sent him down to the ground, but when I saw these other four I dropped 8000 feet in a dive. Then I straighten­ed out to look round, but in a few minutes they were after me again. They came at me in twos one on each side, and a strearn of bullets came into the cockpit. I could see the incendiaries sparkle as they ca.me through the fuselage." Ultimately, seeing smoke coming from his machine and believing ·that he was on fire, the British pilot managed to land on the sands. He had a bullet through his engine, oil was gushing out of a feed pipe, and his control colunn vvas smashed. After firing his aircraft on the sand dtmes, the officer was given a li:f'8 :bowards the ~ovm by army transport. "At this time" he said, "there was comparative ciuiet over Dunkirk, but a few minutes later the air was swanning with aircraft. /"I -2 ­ 11I quickly put on a tin hat I saw lying by the road11 , said the pilot. "There were so many aircraft en,r;aged it was like midges on a summer evening. There was a big battle bet1veen our fighters and a whole collection of Messerschmitt 109 1s ana_ 11 O's. Then three Heinkels came on the scene and went in for stick bombing. As far as I could see,. they were trying to sink a boat that was already su1)merged, anyhow it was ~artly under the water. To them it may have appeared that it was afloat, but to me it seemed a great y;aste of time and energy -not to mention bombs. 11 Leaving Dunkirk on a paddle-steamer the officer found hllllself bombed by another Heinkel. "But the Navy got in the last blow11 he added. "One of the German bombers was hit fair and square by fire from a destroyer and came hurtling doYm. into the sea11 • AIR MllitSTRY BULLETIN No". 8_g_~· 2/6/40 -No. 20 BOMBS DROPP])J! ON N0Rf..Q1Ko The Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security announce:­ Early this morning (Sunday) an unidentified aircraft passed over Norfolko ~wo bombs from this aircraft fell in open countryQ . ----000-....... --­ AI R !1INIS'I'l1Y BULI·~TIN _}10 ~_§_21_ 2/6/40. -No. 21. M.P's VISIT AI E STATION. Captain Harold JalfouP, Under-Secretary of State for Air, Colonel J. J. Llewe llin, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Aircraft Production, and Flight Lieutenant W.VI . ~Vakefield, I·.i .P. (Parliamental'."'J Private Secretary to Captain Balfour), today (Sunday) visited an :Gastern Counties station of the. R.A. F. Coastal Command. · They were J'.'eceived on a r J:i val by the station commander and, during a subseciuent tour of the operations J'.'oom, flight offices and other parts of the station, saw how woPk of the units of the Command was caPried on. 'I'hey studied photographs of the evacuation of the D.E.F. as seen from Coastal Command aircraft that had carried out pi:>otective patrols over the Channel and along the French and Belgian coasts during the evacuation. g/6/40 -No 22'. PRESS NOTICE The Minister of Home Sea:;urity has issued a statement with reference to the evacuation of school children f~om coastal ports in South-Eastern and Eastern areas of England today. Sir John Anderson strongly urges that others in those areas, and particularly those in responsible, positions, should remain quietly at their posts nnd carry on their normal work. Clear instructions will be given to tho civilian population when special action is required of them. At present their duty is to go on with their work and refuse to listen to rumour. Sir Auckland Geddes, Regional Commissioner, South-Ea&tern Region-, and the General Officer Commanding the troops in Kent haveex:pressed their great appreciation of the splendid help which the people of Kent have been giving in the evacuation of the B.E.F. MINISTRY OF HOlVIE SECURITY.