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...fall of Singapore will over-shadow everything else so far in the war except perhaps the British retreat at Dunkirk after the fall of France," said G. Nye Steiger, visiting lecturer of Far Eastern History and professor of History at Simmons College...
...Every ton of our shipping, every flotilla, every airplane, the whole strength of our Army would have been committed and fighting for life, and these troubles of the Far East and of the Middle East might have sunk into insignificance compared with the question of another and far worse Dunkirk...
...recalled the magnificent calm of a small doctor who carried a 275-lb. medical chest down two deck ladders during the attack and set up his operating room by himself. Even mess boys were heroes under fire. A British officer, said Captain Lovette, told him that neither at Dunkirk nor Crete had brave men fought better than they fought at Pearl Harbor...
Later in a pleasant office in Cairo, St. John argued with a British censor. He had written that the evacuation of Greece was not "another Dunkirk," since at Dunkirk losses had only amounted to 10%, while the Greek campaign had cost a flat 50%. The censor crossed out everything after "Dunkirk...
...Work and No Play? Famed Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy of Northwestern University, in a paper on The Physiology of Work, summarized the lessons the British learned after Dunkirk when men in British factories began to work a seven-day week (from 70 to 80 hours...