Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fatal battle of the Meuse; General Weygand had asked the British to strike southward to help close the Artois gap, but after dallying for two days, the British suddenly abandoned Arras and raced northward towards the Channel ports; the British saved four-fifths of their troops at Dunkirk while the French lost half of theirs; at the Somme and Aisne, General Weygand had asked for British troops and aviation, but only five of the 40 air squadrons engaged were British and no British troops ever arrived...
Calmly the British waited until the Germans had announced the sinking before telling that the Arandora Star was a prison ship-thereby preventing Nazi propagandists from claiming that the British had scuttled her deliberately. Afterwards the Germans, who ruthlessly attacked hospital ships at Dunkirk, had to content them selves with grumbling that the British should have marked the ship so that it would not be attacked. The British announced that the U-boat commander who struck the blow was Germany's Scapa Flow hero, Lieut. Captain Günther Prien...
...Dunkirk, where nearly 1,000 Allied ships formed a floating lane across the Channel, 335,000 Allied troops...
...from the Seine not an unrelieved debacle. There, from Cherbourg, Brest and St. Nazaire, fresh units of a new British Expeditionary Force, a "broomstick Army," began pouring in, true to British promise. Some were veterans of the ill-starred expedition to Norway. Some were survivors of the retreat to Dunkirk. As fast as their meagre equipment got ashore, these latecomers sped across Normandy and Poitou to meet the German tide. Those who had seen him before, even more than those who had not, longed for a crack at "Jerry." But by the time that the new B. E. F.-little...
...Dunkirk and Ostend...