Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France's shoulders went back against the wall last week. No sooner had his Armies taken Dunkirk, consolidating his hold on the western coast of Europe "from the Arctic Circle to the north of the Somme," than Adolf Hitler hurled them southward against the remaining Armies of Allied Generalissimo Maxime Weygand along a 160-mile front stretching from Abbeville to Rethel...
...last week was certainly not the Allies' hour. Though two French divisions and one British fought bravely to the end at Dunkirk, and Vice Admiral Jean Marie Charles Abrial of the French Navy jauntily puffed his pipe and stayed ashore until the last launch, the hour was Adolf Hitler's and he made the most...
...pursuit of the Allies to the sea repeatedly expressed amazement at the Hitler machine's fitness and efficiency. They saw windrows of Allied but few German corpses, the German system being to bury their dead within an hour for reasons of morale as well as hygiene. Even before Dunkirk's final fall, masses of German troops began moving to the new southern front. German mechanics drove back long lines of abandoned Allied motor trucks, camouflaging them with their own blue-grey paint, loading them with salvaged parts such as batteries, tires, spark plugs or with captured gasoline...
...that case we leave," Premier Pierlot said. The Ministers quit the castle and went to Dunkirk...
...Embassy in Paris received this affidavit: "I, Lloyd R. Stark, a native-born American citizen of Mystic, Conn., certify that Germans bombarded Malo-les-Bains, near Dunkirk. This is an open town, actually a seaside resort similar to Narragansett Pier, Watch Hill, Palm Beach and Malibu. I am seriously wounded in a hospital. Have lost all my property, as have many others. Request aid in food and clothing...