Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers and Germany's commanders, including Marshals Erwin Rommel and Albert Kesselring, had a great deal to do with the Allies' troubles. The Germans in Italy did not know that Germany had lost the war; they were fighting as shrewdly and fiercely as the British fought after Dunkirk...
...average Tommy, with a Dunkirk and the blitzing of his home behind [him], is doggedly resigned to seeing the war through.* The Russian has certainly hung on as though he understood what a Hitler defeat would mean. [But] to the doughboy all this fighting is only a distasteful prelude to returning home. Nothing else...
...chorus: "Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia." A tall, handsome girl stepped out of the packed crowd on the dock and waved. Cynthia Elliot, niece of Lady Maud Carnegie, was taken prisoner with a mobile canteen unit in France in 1940, put to nursing 1,500 wounded and captured men of Dunkirk. With many of those men she was transferred to Dieppe to await the 1941 exchange ship, the one that never came because at the last minute the Germans backed out of the deal. The Germans gave Cynthia the job of breaking the news to the men. Released last month...
Notable omission: Dunkirk. Reason: it was dragged out over two weeks and could not be printed until the evacuation was complete...
This remarkable success emboldened the women to do something which many a reader will doubt, but which Mrs. Shiber insists is literally true. They advertised in Paris-soir: "William Gray (formerly of Dunkirk) is looking for his friends and relatives. Address Cafe Moderne, Rue Rodier, Paris." There were three replies-one obviously from the Gestapo, one too hazardous to follow up, one from a priest who was sheltering four British soldiers, was in touch with hundreds more. In the next four months Kitty and Mrs. Shiber helped almost 200 British soldiers to get out of Occupied France...