Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before the third surprise was complete, the fourth surprise had taken place. A British Army of 400,000 men, all but surrounded in Flanders, succeeded in effecting its escape by sea from Dunkirk-explained by dogged British courage, the reckless brilliance of British seamanship, and the ability of the Royal Air Force to maintain local command of the air. The fifth surprise took place no one knew exactly when-when Hitler found his forces unable to undertake a direct assault last summer on Britain herself. The explanation has never been completely given, but it included as its chief ingredients...
...opened he was reporting a somnolent war with the B. E. F. Then he was transferred to Berlin, the first newsman to cover both sides of World War II. His wife and two young daughters went home to the U. S. With the German Army when it rolled into Dunkirk, Barnes saw the desolate beach on which men had died who were his comrades a few months earlier, sent back one of the most moving dispatches...
Praising his gallantry under fire, a French naval court-martial cleared Captain Guillaume Rons Cristophe Marie Joseph Michel de Toulouse-Lautrec, commander of the destroyer Sirocco (lost at Dunkirk) and cousin of the late great, dwarfed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, acidulous painter of fin-de-siecle France...
...main force of R. A. F. flights still fell on Antwerp, Dunkirk, Ostend, Nieuport, Le Havre, Calais and every intervening cove and roadstead...
...equanimity. On only one point would R. N. agree: the war by sea is certainly going to be intensified, but the R. N. would be the intensifier. During the week R. N. warships indulged again in their bold practice of shelling "invasion ports" along the German held French coast*-Dunkirk, Cherbourg, Brest, Lorient. Paris heard that before long the Germans would be driven back from the coast, presumably by a British expeditionary force landed under R. N.'s guns and R. A. F.'s bombs...