Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cyril's removal, now that "Tiny" Ironside and "Tiger" Gort were in limbo, cleaned out the three leaders who were roundly acclaimed three months ago for the victorious retreat from Flanders. Only unbeaten generals are bear cats...
...planes) against the Nazi air armada. He describes defenseless villages bombed out of existence, King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav machine-gunned from the air, incendiary bombs dropped on the red cross on a hospital roof. Much of the book is the story of the Norwegian Government's retreat to the north, its efforts to establish a front there. Except for the case of Quisling, "a very well-read man with a weakness for German philosophy," Hambro specifically denies that treason played an important part in Norway's fall. Such charges, says he, are real fifth calumny...
...penalty for not following them is summed up in one episode: "During the retreat from Flanders, on the road from Vimy, an old French peasant woman, standing on her doorstep and watching the procession of refugees stream by, said to me sadly: 'The pity of it, Captain! Such a great country...
Alexander McElwain '21, who was with the American Field Service throughout the war, according to Willis, was caught in an especially bad bombardment at Beauvais. He was remarkably cool and efficient in rescuing wounded civilians under fire, but during the retreat of the French Army, McElwain became separated from the rest of the section. He joined another corps and did such excellent work for the that he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre...
...this time he was able to join the Foreign Legion without trouble, but it was only in time for a bombing by the Germans and a 100 mile retreat with 2000 wounded and convalescent Legionnaires from Lyons to Grenoble, completed in four days...