Word: dunkirks
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Beside them fought the Canadian 3rd Division and the tough little men of England's 50th Northumbrians, who had fought in France and Flanders four years before, had covered the evacuation of Dunkirk, had chased the Nazis across North Africa, across Sicily and up Italy...
...three hours, Radio Berlin kept it up: paratroopers landed near the Seine estuary; the harbor of Le Havre shelled; Calais and Dunkirk raided by strong bomber formations. Every new flash brought the probability nearer. But most of the U.S. slept...
...British Admiralty announced that 3,700 volunteers had answered its call for yachtsmen and small-boat handlers. The boatmen, many of them veterans of the incredible flotilla that saved the B.E.F. at Dunkirk, are manning small craft in the harbors. Like other British civilians, they are waiting; but they will not have to wait quite so long...
...without lifting an eyebrow, driving a jeep with one hand, clutching a pistol with the other, while his aide blasted the jungle thickets with a machine gun. Alexander was not blamed for Dunkirk or Burma. In both theaters, he was in the position of a relief pitcher who enters a baseball game with his team ten runs behind...
Last week he turned up at the fighting fronts in a light grey flannel bush coat, khaki drill breeches, polo boots, Sam Browne belt, and an ancient stern-visored guardsman's cap, which he has clung to for years: it has been rebuilt three times. Neither at Dunkirk nor anywhere since then has he bothered to wear a steel helmet...