Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunkirk-first-class port with excellent beaches which served the British in the retreat of June 1940. Canals are hazards, defensive flooding is possible...
Since 1938, when 55-year-old Admiral Sir Bertram H. Ramsay went on the Royal Navy's retired list, he has: 1) evacuated the B.E.F. from Dunkirk; 2) planned the North African expedition; 3) organized the Sicily invasion; 4) turned (last December) to planning the naval phase of the Second Front...
...Observer concludes that unconditional surrender has now become an unnecessary bar to quick peace. It has made the Germans fight for "naked life"; it has aroused "a Dunkirk spirit." Says the Observer: "If we [Britain, the U.S., Russia] remove that obstacle on our side, it may be a potent means of aiding our fighting men to bring down the obstacle on the enemy side...
...French coast, German troops forcibly evacuated civilians from Calais and Dunkirk. Families were hurried away with no possessions except hand luggage. Their heavy furniture was hauled out and loaded aboard trucks which carried signs: "Gifts of the French people to bombed-out Germans...
...Admiralty issued an appeal to amateur yachtsmen and other civilian boatmen (many of whom helped to save the shattered B.E.F. at Dunkirk in 1940) to serve the Royal Navy "for short periods of duty during the next six months...