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...summer of 1940, after the collapse of France. Thereafter its war production drive became singleminded, Throgmorton Street became practically impervious to bad news (including the fall of Singapore), and the market reacted mainly to the compulsion of too much money and too few goods. The U.S. had its Dunkirk at Pearl Harbor, only five months ago, and the same forces are only now beginning to be severely felt...
...Eureka landing boats, which, A.J. likes to say, could have accomplished the Dunkirk evacuation in less than half the time the British took...
...bombed nonstop from England. Augsburg in Bavaria, another distant target, was bombed daringly by day. The Ruhr got it two nights. Hamburg was pasted. But the real noise and numbers were the daylight sweeps along the French coast and the invasion ports-Lorient, Le Havre, St. Nazaire, Cherbourg, Dunkirk, Calais, Rouen, carried out mainly by Spitfire-protected Hurricanes, converted to carry light bombs and nicknamed Hurribombers. One day more than 400 planes went over; the next, 600 went...
...Never? The argument for some Allied counterattack in Europe this year was simply that the risks of doing nothing outweighed the grave risks of doing something. Another Dunkirk? Russia's defeat would be immeasurably worse. Shipping short? With a German fleet in being already poised on the profile of Europe, it might be shorter yet, another year. Could Britain afford to weaken its home defenses for continental adventure? Britain could not afford to lose the war this year, as it might be lost, if Russia fell...
...each other in a pitchy midnight. . . . Even warfare is not what it was. Its glory is dirty. When a vast confusion is unintelligible in a prolonged and almost impenetrable darkness, it is difficult to add a touch of glory." Yet Author Tomlinson cannot escape the touch of glory at Dunkirk and the thought of Britain's air fighters: "I do not know how to write of those men who, few in number, went up on wings to avert Nazi dominion of Christendom...