Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Red Cross workers cycled along the causeway that leads across the marshes outside Dunkirk. They passed safely through the German lines, pedaled through no man's land to the British lines. There they delivered a message from the German garrison commander. He wanted a truce to permit evacuation of Dunkirk's 20,000 civilians before the final battle, in which the city was certain to be destroyed...
...estimated numbers (some now prisoners) whom the Nazis left behind: Cherbourg 35,000; Saint-Malu 4,000; Brest 35,000; Lorient 10,000; Saint-Nazaire 10,000; Le Havre 9,000; Boulogne 7,000; Calais 10,000; Dunkirk 10,000; Mouth of the Scheldt...
Excursions & Alarms. Dunkirk was only a time of frustration and false alarms for the Canadians. They were waiting, in England, to take their places in the Anglo-French line when Hitler's hordes burst into the Low Countries and northern...
France. The Imperial General Staff called then on Canada's No. 1 soldier, Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton, for help in holding the Channel ports. McNaughton visited Calais and Dunkirk in a destroyer, which was bombed and machine-gunned by the Germans, and returned to tell the War Cabinet and Winston Churchill that he did not believe the ports could be held. The British concurred. So the great drama of the Dunkirk beaches passed the Canadians...
...more were isolated as the British crossed into Belgium. Robot attacks on the 'London area fell off sharply. The Germans seemed to have abandoned the heart of the launching area around Calais, for the few missiles that came over early last week were from the Belgian coast beyond Dunkirk...