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The Flanders disaster that led to Dunkerque came after |Hitler had already mastered |Austria. Czech oslovakia. Po-

of Belgium and much of North- ern France.

Practically the whole of the British Army had been sent to join the French and Belgians in opposing the still - advancing Germans. At the end of the fort- night, nearly all the BEF and the French Ist Army were vir- tually surrounded. except for the Dunkerque coastal strip. and the Belgian defence on the northeastern flank was” col- lapsing

After knifing through to the sea farther south at Abbeville. the German armor struck with ‘ dazzling’ speed up the coast _ Almost at once it was rea- taking Boulogne. enveloping Ca. lized, however, lais and arriving within 10 > miles of Dunkerque.

The ist Canadian Division. based in England. missed by a whisker being drawn into the vortex. Part of its ist Infantry Brigade had already been em- barked at. Dover and Gen A. G. L. McNaughton. Cana-. dian commander-in-chief, went by destroyer to Calais and Dunkerque to study the situ- ation. .

Col. C_ P.. Stacey, Canadian war historian, writes that what McNaughton saw and heard “produced in his mind the con- viction that the Dunkerque area was already quite sufficiently congested: what the troops there needed was not reinforce- ment but organization.” a

Yet there was still talk among British military leaders of send- Canadians to the Dunkerque .

The May 14 BBC broadcast, although couched in polite. lan- guage. amounted to an order, not a request. but it was on a voluntary basis that an ava- _lamche of letters descended on the admiralty’s small vessels pool.

Many of the owners also of- fered their own serviices so that by May 3%. when Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay. Dynamo commander, made an urgent

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Naval officers. stripped ships im the port of London of life- boats. i

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Destroyers and channel steamers. sped past barges, cockle boats, drifters, trawlers and tugs.

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“Where is the RAF?” was the enraged cry of the soldiers un- der the dive-bombing Stukas.

“Many of our soldiers coming back have net seen the air force at work.” Churchill said “They r saw only the bombers which escaped its prolective attack. They underrate its achieve- ments.”

On June I alone 31 ships were sunk and I! damaged at Dun- kerque but in the over-all Dy- famo period 334 German planes were destroyed for the less of 1144 RAF aircraft.

Soldiers were frequently waited neck- deep in water for boats. and in- cidents of panic are recorded in a book. Sands of Dunkirk. pub- lished to severe criticism im 1961. It tells of drunkenness. de- bauchery and fights at pistol- point for places in the boats.

So fantastic was the scale of the evacuation that the question has been asked through the years whether Hitler deliber-

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