Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question is whether Americans like Paul McNutt, and American families like his, have the will to see a tough war through. Britain's will was prepared for the drafting of all war manpower by the shock of Dunkirk. In this war it may be that nations have the choice of steeling themselves to hard decisions in order to avoid disaster or being steeled when Dunkirks give them the willpower...
...Bulkeley. The men remembered the promise without enthusiasm. They knew that they and their six little ships were chiefly useful for gumming up the works of the Japanese invaders on Bataan. In their 70-by-20 foot, plywood speedboats, they expended all they had in "America's little Dunkirk." But MacArthur kept his promise, and they came back to tell about...
Though Alexander had the misfortune to command two retreats (Dunkirk was the other), in both cases he got the job after other generals had been recalled, possibly too late. His own motto is: "Attack, attack and reattack, even when you are on the defensive." His politeness is unfailing, but staff officers confronting him for the first time remark his pale blue eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard...
...bloody beaches a staff officer told Alexander: "The situation is catastrophic." "Sorry," said Alexander, "I don't understand such big words." He then squatted on the beach and built a sand castle. He was the last man in his command to leave Dunkirk...
...muscle on a defense skeleton. He was lucky in that his defense area had magnificent communications. It was criss-crossed with highways and railroads (see map, p. 29), dotted with airdromes, some snatched from the French, some built by the Germans in their months of hesitancy after Dunkirk. With these advantages Rundstedt has organized a fluid defense, well but tressed on its front by strong points, backed by forces that could be whipped to any threatened point...