Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there was the war. Work on the script started two weeks before hostilities began. Shooting, scheduled for October, was held up until the following April because actors and technicians had suddenly become unavailable. There was a shortage of lumber for sets. Dunkirk over with, half the picture was in cans when the bombing of London began. Then the Nazis turned the Denham studio into a beacon-the point where their bombers swung toward London after crossing the Channel...
...honor of the French naval tradition. It is also axiomatic that the opinion of the French Navy's seamen is so doubtful that they might mutiny against any orders to fight Britain. At any rate, the Admiral of the French Fleet today loathes the British. Of Dunkirk he has recently said: "That was glorious. I also remember Oran. That was shameful." Of the British blockade he has said: "Germans are more generous and more understanding of the needs of humanity than the English." And the Admiral still has a Navy to command. According to estimates: By British action...
...Muselier (now an ardent De Gaullist) cabled him: "You are renouncing the whole of the French naval policy dating back to the 18th Century and abandoning the sovereign rights of France." In 1939 fluently English-speaking Admiral Darlan reviewed the British Reserve Fleet at Portland with King George. After Dunkirk, King George gave Darlan a special decoration for the evacuation, although Darlan had not been there. But after the Armistice, when he became Vichy's Minister of Marine, Darlan's viewpoint on the British underwent a change...
...Thumbs up," a 35-minute movie vividly portraying the evacuation of Dunkirk, the burning of London, and shots of the British War Relief Society at work mopping up, is followed by "Warning," an official British movie of air raid precautions, actual raids, and the destruction of Nottingham...
...opinion that the Battle of the Atlantic was Britain's most crucial struggle. It also shed some interesting new light on the trend of that battle. This loss of almost half a million tons was terrific. The month was the third worst after June 1940, the month of Dunkirk (533,902 tons) and March 1941 (489,229 tons). Later revisions would probably put April above March and into second place...