Tag Archives: General the Viscount Gort

Dunkirk on Tuesday, May 21, 1940

A summary of the WWII events this day: French PM Reynaud appeared before his parliament and blamed the military disaster on incredible faults in the French high command that he said would be punished. Churchill’s 1st meeting with new Allied … Continue reading

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Dunkirk on Sunday, May 19, 1940

A summary of the WWII events this day: The situation in France was unravelling fast. The Germans had now secured their breakthrough in the gap they had forced north of the Maginot Line. The great bulk of the French Army … Continue reading

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Dunkirk on Saturday, May 18, 1940

A summary of the WWII events of this day: The German Army in Belgium captured Antwerp and entered Brussels. The British and French forces in Belgium fall back to positions behind the Dendre River. Twelve RAF Blenheim bombers attacked advancing … Continue reading

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Dunkirk on Friday, May 17, 1940

From Walter Lord’s book, The Miracle of Dunkirk: This same day Winston Churchill for the first time began thinking of the possibility of evacuation. No one was more offensive-minded than Churchill—nobody prodded Gort harder—but every contingency had to be faced, … Continue reading

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Dunkirk on Thursday, May 16, 1940

Normally talk of individuals saving civilization is correctly limited to summer sci-fi movies. But in those very movies nowadays, it seems that the Germans of WWII are the only universally acceptable symbols of evil. [The unwillingness to identify other evils … Continue reading

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