Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--American forces captured Sened, only 25 miles from the sea, today in a swiftly developing drive across Tunisia and military quarters believed that Marshal Erwin Rommel faced the imminent choice of a Stalingrad or Dunkirk defeat in Africa...
Britain now is not the Britain which Hitler might have crushed in 1940; its defensive air power, which saved Britain then, is now the strongest concentration of sky-might anywhere. After Dunkirk, Britain literally had no army in 1940; it has forces for land & sea defense in 1943. And Britain keeps great defensive forces at home precisely because attack on Britain, however remote it may seem to others, is always a possibility to Britons...
...Azov, they had closed the Germans' last channels of escape via Rostov. There were reports of the Red Fleet's harrying boatloads of Germans fleeing across the narrow (3 mi.) Kerch Straits to the Axis-held Crimea. The most the Nazis could hope for was a Dunkirk, but it seemed more likely that they would suffer another Stalingrad...
...Marines), which had held Tobruk in an eight-month siege; the South African 1st Division, whose countrymen had surrendered Tobruk after one devastating day; New Zealanders who had fought and fled from Greece and Crete. It was a purposeful army behind an impassioned, man who was avenging Dunkirk (where he had led the 3rd Division) and all of Britain's North African defeats...
...Nevile Henderson may have awakened to the facts at last. He joined the British Home Guards after Dunkirk, became group commander (colonel) in April 1941. He spent much time in making public speeches and appeals to aid the British refugees who drifted back from blasted Europe (Failure of a Mission raised ?38,300 for that cause). Last week his mission on this earth ended. He was asleep when death came...