Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast regularly over the Soviet radio was back home last week and talking last week. CBS's dark, thin Larry Lesueur, 33, rolled into Russia via Archangel a year ago. Onetime United Press reporter, he had covered the R.A.F. in France from war's outbreak through Dunkirk, the London blitz as apprentice to CBS's Edward R. Murrow. In talking about Russian radio Lesueur told a lot about Russia...
...whom the mark of a religious background is deep. Said he to his soldiers: "Let us unashamedly and humbly ask God's help in our endeavors and strive to deserve it." Like many of his devoted, knobby-kneed Scotsmen and war-hardened Englishmen, he is a veteran of Dunkirk...
...Power. Heading General Dwight Eisenhower's "precision offensive" was tight-lipped Lieut. General Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, commanding the British First Army of vengeful veterans of Flanders and Dunkirk. Second in command was Major General Charles Ryder, commanding auxiliary U.S. assault troops and motorized infantry. R.A.F. Spitfires, equipped with a tank-busting cannon, and Brigadier General James Doolittle's planes covered the advance in the air. Offshore were units of the British Fleet...
...this controversy between professionals and amateurs as to the wisdom of an immediate second front, doesn't anyone give thought to the fact that the entire British war machine was built after Dunkirk, and while the nation was fighting for its life ? If the Few-to-Whom-so-Many-owe-so-Much had waited for the supplies and reinforcements that they needed at that moment, Great Britain wouldn't be singing There'll Always Be an England today...
...wrote a life of Christ. An Ulsterman, born in County Donegal, he was marked for the clergy. He went into the Army, but the mark of his religious upbringing is still deep in him. His hero is Oliver Cromwell, who also smote his enemies and praised God. At Dunkirk Bernard Montgomery told his men: "If you run out of ammunition, tear the enemy to pieces with your hands." Fittingly, he reads the lessons at church parades...