Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that case we leave," Premier Pierlot said. The Ministers quit the castle and went to Dunkirk...
...whom are sent up with minimum flight instruments, obliged to follow-their-leader) were not believed up to Allied par. Allies saw that inferior, half-trained troops were mixed in with the elite. For their own civilian Army ranks they now had a leavening of veterans returning from Dunkirk (see p. 24), whose three weeks in Flanders were as instructive as three years of World...
...least one British division and two French remained in the hellish strip at Dunkirk pounded now by German artillery as well as bombs, when a stocky figure in a soiled field uniform at last consented to obey orders from London and embark. Accompanied only by two staff officers, General the Viscount Gort stepped into a small boat and went home in soldierly silence. Chief of Staff General Sir John Greer Dill greeted him grimly. King George called him to Buckingham Palace to receive the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Promised Lord Gort: "We will meet them again...
...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...
...German High Command, announcing the occupation of Dunkirk, claimed the capture of 40,000 Allied troops in the siege-wrecked coastal town. And Hitler, describing it as the end of the greatest battle of destruction of all times, asserted that the Allied defeat in Flanders assures a German victory...