... Just before the end came in North-West Germany, the R.A.F. had the task of smashing the Nazi attempt at Dunkirk flights to Denmark and Norway. Enemy troops were filling the roads between Schwenn and Lubeck, and frantically trying to escape into Denmark ...

... whole of the British Expedi tionary Force. Our Army and 120,000 French troops were, indeed, rescued by the British Navy from Dunkirk, but only with the loss of all their cannon, vehicles, and modern equipment. This loss inevitably took some weeks to repair ...

... forces of infantry and artillery protected the ports, but the evacuation of the greater part of the Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, Brest and Cherbourg was a success on which the Germans had not reckoned and the situation is very different now that Britain ...

... his headquarters in the ■lusty compound of a Burmese house built on stilts on the river's edge. He was the last man leave Dunkirk at the end of our campaign in France and Belgium in 1940 and he was also imongst the last to cross the^ Chindwin out of Burma ...