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...enemy had neither the courage nor the skill for a Dunkirk. He couldn't take it. He wilted. He collapsed swiftly, miserably and ingloriously...
Bloody Embarrassment. A British major who was at Dunkirk remarked: "Their discipline is far worse than ours was at Dunkirk. They had anti-tank guns and artillery and could have held us off and put up a better show than this. They have had no refugees to contend with either. I think this rather more than makes up for Dunkirk...
...looks as if the enemy High Command never contemplated a Dunkirk. But it is evident that the enemy generals kept their soldiers fighting by promising them that there would be an evacuation by sea. Along the coast are signs in Italian and German that say: "Concentration Point." These are like the signs that the British put up at Dunkirk to concentrate the soldiers and prevent them from overcrowding the embarkation jetties. Everything was perfectly organized to make the Italian and German soldiers think that they were going to be evacuated-except that there was no organization to evacuate them...
...never be seen again." The neurosis occurs in steady men who have been subjected to prolonged warfare without rest or hope-as on Guadalcanal. Said Commander Smith: "This was not the sudden and quickly terminated but terrific rape of Pearl Harbor, nor the similarly acute days of Dunkirk. This was the worst of both of them, prolonged literally for weeks. . . . Never before in history have such a group of healthy, toughened, well-trained men been subjected to such conditions...
American hunters banged away with ball powder at deer and grouse before the season was opened on Japs and Nazis. The British were the first to use it in military ammunition: after Dunkirk, Western built a plant for England. Since then, more than a billion rounds have been loaded with the new powder. Factories in the U.S. went up in jig time because the process needed only materials and equipment available locally-often assembled by local boilermakers...