Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Better. But that grim picture has been dispelled, at any rate for the present, by the action of the people of a small island in the North Sea, nobly and valiantly aided by the young nations of the British family across the seas. First, there was the retreat from Dunkirk. Then came Mr. Winston Churchill. Then came the brutal bombing of London, but there was no flinching...
Even before the third surprise was complete, the fourth surprise had taken place. A British Army of 400,000 men, all but surrounded in Flanders, succeeded in effecting its escape by sea from Dunkirk-explained by dogged British courage, the reckless brilliance of British seamanship, and the ability of the Royal Air Force to maintain local command of the air. The fifth surprise took place no one knew exactly when-when Hitler found his forces unable to undertake a direct assault last summer on Britain herself. The explanation has never been completely given, but it included as its chief ingredients...
What happened after that was a waking nightmare to the Washington fans. The Bears began to roll - like the German Army rolling through France. Dazed onlookers waited for the defenders to make a stand - in Belgium, at the Somme, at Dunkirk - but the juggernaut kept rolling, rolling, rolling. They chalked up 21 points in the first quarter, seven in the second. Radio fans, tuning in at half time, thought they were listening to a basketball game - or an Atlantic City auction. By sixes and sevens, the score jumped: "35, 41, 47, no 48, 54." Those who actually saw the game...
...opened he was reporting a somnolent war with the B. E. F. Then he was transferred to Berlin, the first newsman to cover both sides of World War II. His wife and two young daughters went home to the U. S. With the German Army when it rolled into Dunkirk, Barnes saw the desolate beach on which men had died who were his comrades a few months earlier, sent back one of the most moving dispatches...
Praising his gallantry under fire, a French naval court-martial cleared Captain Guillaume Rons Cristophe Marie Joseph Michel de Toulouse-Lautrec, commander of the destroyer Sirocco (lost at Dunkirk) and cousin of the late great, dwarfed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, acidulous painter of fin-de-siecle France...