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1. These are Alsace, the three bishoprics of Mentz, Toul, and Verdun, and the three cities of Dunkirk, Bayonne, and Marseilles
2. On the 24th May 1940 the LSSAH took up position just 15 miles from Dunkirk and guarded a bridgehead at Saint Vanant along the side of the Aa Canal
3. They held their position then advanced to Wormhoudt just 10 miles from Dunkirk where it was reported that the British and their allies were trapped
4. They waited for the final order to advance and finish the British at Dunkirk
5. They overwhelmed the British on the Heights leaving the area clear of enemy fire allowing the encirclement of Dunkirk to be completed
6. Sam Ferris left the beach at Dunkirk on the 1st June 1940 and sat quietly in the bow of a small fishing boat
7. “My war almost ended at Arnham when our unit was pinned down by enemy fire but I damn well refused to die until I found the murderer of my two brothers and my brave compatriots that terrible day near Dunkirk
8. After we reached Berlin I found out that a tribunal had taken residence here in Nuremberg and I asked permission of my CO who knew what had happened in Dunkirk and he immediately agreed
9. From time to time Sam found himself in similar situations where his mind wandered back to that day near Dunkirk, then he would allow his mind back to the dark days in Tobruk where they fought the Germans hand to hand, then in his mind he was sitting in the railway station in Dortmund and once more he saw young Beck’s face on the poster
10. They went into Poland then were deployed around the Dunkirk invasion in 1940
11. The man smiled and reached out his hand, “My name is Pierre Hinault and I should imagine you were on the run from the Germans and trying to reach Dunkirk!”
12. Roberts said, “This is Private Sam Ferris of the Cheshire Regiment, a man who saw service in Dunkirk in 1940 then joined the fight in the African Campaign before returning to Europe during the D-Day invasion
13. “It was during the Dunkirk evacuation that Sam Ferris witnessed the horrific execution of four of his colleagues in a small wood not far from the safety of the flotilla of ships that brought home our soldiers from Dunkirk
14. “I was in Dunkirk in 1940 and escaped
15. ����������� Captain Townsend unclipped his parachute while his men were still landing around him in the large clearing in the woods near Gravelines, an old fortified town between Calais and Dunkirk
16. � Between him and the road linking Gravelines and Dunkirk stood a large brick building partially surrounded by a high brick wall, about 200 yards away
17. � He had no illusions about the real state of the British Tank Corps: what equipment that had not been lost in Dunkirk during the panic evacuation of the British Army from France was inadequate in both numbers and capabilities
18. For him this was the light at the end of the tunnel through which he had journeyed since the evacuation from Dunkirk
19. Why was this, why did Hitler not invade Britain; especially after Dunkirk?
20. He was quite convinced that after the defeats in Norway and particularly after the disaster at Dunkirk, Britain would sue for peace
21. It has been suggested that an invasion immediately after Dunkirk would have produced a German success, as it would have been easier at that time
22. In a short period the Army refitted the survivors of Dunkirk, organised a Home Guard, created beach defences, and set up mobile reserves
23. " British wartime cabinet documents released in 1998 reveals that after Dunkirk, and observing the daunting military achievements made by Nazi Germany, two members of the British War Cabinet, Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, declared that they thought it best to propose a peace settlement
24. In May 1940, Hitler’s blitzkrieg in the west, followed by the evacuation at Dunkirk created a chaotic situation for the Anglo French allies
25. This is claimed as a blunder to equal Dunkirk
26. Just how effective were these weapons? After Dunkirk, Churchill, fearing invasion had ordered heavy guns to be mounted on the Dover cliffs
27. The British public were already despondent enough about defeats from Dunkirk to Singapore
28. They are on the paddle steamer ‘Waverley’ that was rebuilt on the Clyde after the original one was destroyed at the Dunkirk evacuations
29. Especially when combined with the fatal mistake of halting the panzer's outside Dunkirk; thus allowing the British to evacuate their troops back across the Channel
30. He envisaged a "new Dunkirk" situation developing, with the British once again evacuating to England or this time being completely destroyed
31. “You might have seen the movie Dunkirk; in the World War II, the Wehrmacht cornered the British in and around the port town of Dunkirk, and all that was left for it was to push and prod the enemy into the sea
32. If not for Goring’s self-serving advice the flower of the British youth might’ve perished on the sands of Dunkirk and the Nazis would have been the masters of the World sans the Goring Syndrome – the self-serving ways of one that imperil others’ course would serve the unintended in unexpected ways
33. She was moored near Dunkirk, France, and rose in stark contrast against sunset colors of mauve, burnt orange, golden yellow, crimson red, pink, and lavender
34. He drew his finger across the English Channel to the southern side of Dunkirk
35. Dunkirk is Flemish for ‘Church on the Dunes’ and the town was ruled under Burgundian, Austrian, and Spanish flags
36. Pale light barely rose on the docks of Dunkirk; this time around there were no boisterous men who would dare whistle greetings to me, knowing all they could expect was to be fired by Marcus, Reven, or my father
37. The road from Dunkirk to Amiens hadn’t improved since the last time we had passed; it now consisted of nothing more than bumpy potholes from the recent rains
38. The docks of Dunkirk weren’t much different from the docks of New York City; they were filled with sweaty bare-chested men, shouting to each other, not in English, but in a French dialect I didn’t understand
39. We docked in Dunkirk on a gloomy March 1st and made our way to Madame Chaumont's Boardinghouse on the outskirts of Paris
40. Ladislaw—was your mother's name Sarah Dunkirk?"
41. Dunkirk, the richest man in the congregation
42. Dunkirk had never expected that there would be any shrinking at all: he had never conceived that trade had anything to do with the scheme of salvation
43. Dunkirk died also
44. Dunkirk had qualms and yearnings about her daughter, who had long been regarded as lost both to God and her parents
45. Dunkirk would marry again
46. "I am told that your mother's name was Sarah Dunkirk, and that she ran away from her friends to go on the stage
47. Commander of the British rear guard, which held off the Germans during the evacuation of Dunkirk in June 1940, Alexander was the last British officer to leave France
48. of France, at his own personal expense, fit out whaling ships from Dunkirk, and politely invite to that town some score or two of families from our own island of Nantucket? Why did Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties upwards of L1,000,000? And lastly, how comes it that we whalemen of America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen thousand men; yearly consuming 4,000,000 of dollars; the ships worth, at the time of sailing, $20,000,000! and every year importing into our harbors a well reaped harvest of $7,000,000
49. Three years later I was taking part at a sports meeting at Dunkirk when I was approached by—to me—a total stranger
