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...years later, at Dunkirk in 1918, Lieut. Artemus Gates was station commander of the U.S. naval air station, worked with Lieut. Bob Lovett. In Flanders the baby of the outfit, David Sinton Ingalls, Yale '20, became the Navy's No. 1 Ace, in six blazing weeks won the British Distinguished Flying Cross, the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal. To death in battle with eight German fighters flew another Yale Unit man, Kenneth MacLeish (since memorialized in verse by his elder brother, Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, and immortalized when the Navy's Destroyer No. 220 was named...
Another drainage was from the Black Sea port of Odessa. There the Germans claimed they had cupped two armies. The Red Fleet, in fairly good control of the Black Sea, evacuated men by sea. "A new Dunkirk," said the Germans. "Another Tobruk," suggested the British. But Russia's jingoistic, paprika-tongued spokesman Solomon A. Lozovsky, begged to differ. "It is plain and simple Odessa,"he asserted...
...market trends frequently have followed London's, after a time lag of varying duration. From war's beginning until last winter, London and New York quotations moved almost as one (see chart). Both markets slid sharply during the Lowlands campaign, hit bottom after Dunkirk and France's fall. Then began a slow recovery, interrupted by another decline with the Nazi spring successes...
...Reds were in a bag, the Germans claimed. They would have to stand and fight, or tumble, Dunkirk-wise, into the Black Sea. According to Moscow, the Germans spoke too soon. The greater part of the Red Army of the Ukraine had made an orderly retreat, were outside the sack, were crossing the Dnieper to take up new positions...
Last April, Wing Commander Straight got the Military Cross for valor at Dunkirk. Last week he led his squadron of Hurricane fighters in an attack on Nazi Channel shipping. As he suddenly pulled out of a dive, his motor streaming smoke, he radioed: "I have been hit and am going to force-land in France. . . . Squadron to return to its base." He was last seen gliding toward the Nazi shore...