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Tag Archives: The Miracle of Dunkirk
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
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
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
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
Dunkirk on Wednesday, May 15, 1940
From Walter Lord’s book, The Miracle of Dunkirk, the moment that Winston Churchill realized that the Allied forces situation was worse than imagined: At 7:30 a.m. on May 15, Churchill was asleep in his quarters at Admiralty House, London. The … Continue reading
Dunkirk on Tuesday, May 14, 1940
Walter Lord’s book, The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo, begins as follows: Every man had his own special moment when he first knew that something was wrong. For Royal Air Force [RAF] Group Captain Collard, it … Continue reading
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