Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army with a Purpose. These are the regiments' separate memories, their separate battles. The common memory freshest in all their minds, vivid even in the minds of those who were not there, is of a terrible, bloody half-battle: Dunkirk...
...First Army was just about to be formed when France fell. Many of its units fought in France and were evacuated at Dunkirk. They, and the ones to whom they have told their story, remember the lines of soldiers on the beaches, the derelict equipment, the English jokes, the exhausted men running the little boats-and the determination to find, on some beach somewhere, revenge...
...Noel in his name is for his birthday -Christmas, 1891. He was born in India, educated at Charterhouse and Sandhurst, fought and was wounded in World War I, fought in World War II from the Saar to Dunkirk. He has a Scot's reticence which even his wife cannot penetrate...
...siege, long prepared for just that. He was retiring into country alien both to his own and to Montgomery's men, who were desert fighters, not mountaineers. And he was retiring with his back to the wall of Europe. His men would fight fiercely here. Instead of another Dunkirk the British might find another Sevastopol as the Germans drew back on Tunis and Bizerte...
...Matter of Experience. U.S. ground troops had nothing behind them but training camps and the remote and vicarious experiences of Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, New Guinea. The British troops had been tempered by Norway, France, Dunkirk, Greece, Crete, Burma, many blunders and defeats, a great deal of desert and two years against the master, Rommel. The first U.S. phase in Tunisia was a time of learning, a waking up. Said an officer attached to Lieut. General George S. Patton's II Corps: "All this will be great practice for the next show...