Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ISTANBUL--Another great battle between British and German troops--10 months after Dunkirk and the collapse of France--appeared in the making tonight as reports from Greece told of British troops arriving there in a steady stream...
Died. Second Lieut. Charles Standish Vereker, 29, only son and heir of Viscount Gort (former Commander of the British Field Force), one of the last officers to evacuate Dunkirk last June; by his own hand, "while the balance of his mind was disturbed"; in Dorset, England...
...until England's heroic defeat at Dunkirk had there been much popular sentiment behind such volunteer efforts. But by last week voluntary U. S. contributions for England were pouring into agency offices at the rate of about two million dollars monthly. Some volunteer aid facts...
Whatever was up, the R. A. F.'s growing invasion-busting offensive was out to stop it before it got started. Escorted by fast, hard-hitting Hurricanes and Spitfires, Blenheims of the Bomber Command struck in broad daylight at docks and shipping in Flushing, Antwerp, Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais. At night even stronger formations coventrized Hanover two nights in a row, pouring explosives and incendiaries into factories and oil stores. More patrols swept the coast constantly from Scandinavia to southern France, looking for trouble. Berlin obliquely if mendaciously admitted the weight of the raids by claiming...
...have created . . . must be met . . . with the flexibility . . . which ample authority . . . alone can afford." The bill would permit the President to send immediately a small but vital supply of weapons from stock. Roosevelt had sent outmoded weapons to Britain to re-equip her Army after the disastrous evacuation from Dunkirk. Said Stimson: "It's very possible we're sitting here quietly today largely because that step was taken...