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...Home Fleet joined the party in the mists of an early dawn off Ostend. In a sector buzzing with Nazi bombing squadrons, in waters too narrow for maneuvering heavy ships, light cruisers and destroyers paraded past, leisurely shot up Ostend's docks and harbor works, made off for home unscarred...
...main force of R. A. F. flights still fell on Antwerp, Dunkirk, Ostend, Nieuport, Le Havre, Calais and every intervening cove and roadstead...
Last week the British seemed to know too much. They knew that hundreds of self-propelled barges, speedboats and other light craft had been concentrated in Stavanger, Bergen, Antwerp, Ostend, Flushing, Dunkirk, Dieppe, Calais, Boulogne, Brest and all the way down to the Bay of Biscay. That big convoys of merchant supply and transport ships had been port-hopping into the Channel under cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved...
...Dunkirk and Ostend...
...last week progressed, the German thrust which had reached the sea near Abbeville curled northward. The Channel ports began to fall and with them the bases of the isolated Allied Armies. Only Dunkirk, Ostend, Zeebrugge-all shatteringly air-bombed-were left when, after gripping Boulogne and Calais, the Germans on Saturday, May 25, struck down Vimy Ridge to the coast at Gravelines...