Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be to the eternal credit of the British that for a whole year, from the fall of France to the invasion of Russia, they bore the burden of the struggle alone. After Dunkirk, with only one division of troops equipped to put up organized resistance to invasion of the British Isles, they fought on. They continued to fight on, bloody but unbowed, throughout the blitz. Hitler called them "military idiots...
...soldiers in Europe, war's end came variously, and at various times. For some it ended long ago-at Dunkirk, at Salerno, in Normandy, in the Ardennes, at many an unsung roadside. But for each survivor the war ended on the day when the prisoners' cage was opened or the field ahead no longer spat death...
...Again on May 10, 1940, when the Germans burst into the Low Countries (people strewed flowers before the British troops advancing into Belgium; three weeks later came Dunkirk; six weeks later, the fall of France; four months later, the blitz of London...
...Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia and Greece, the German margin of superiority was immense. The one exception to the Germans' superiority in weapons was the fighter planes of the R.A.F. Although few in number, they kept Hitler from two decisive triumphs. They maintained local control of the skies over Dunkirk for three saving days. And they stopped the Luftwaffe in its tracks...
There followed those acts "short of war": cash & carry, Lend-Lease, the 50 destroyers and one million rifles to help Britain save herself after Dunkirk; the peacetime draft; the declaration of "emergency," the branding of Germany as an "international outlaw" in June...