GLORIOUS DAYS OF DUNKIRK
Delayed Report of Admiral (Rec. .9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. An official report by the late Admiral Sir Bertram Rarrjsay on the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, undisclosed for seven years* and now published, shows that the greatest operation of the kind in history was regarded at the start as a “forlorn hope.” The aim was the rescue of 45,000 men before the whole force was overwhelmed, but in the 10 days from May 26 to June 4, * 33,000 troops were saved from 10 miles of bombed and shell-torn beaches. i Admiral Ramsay records complaints in the early stages of no ships and lack of full co-opera-tion, but adds that the gallantry of our outnumbered airmen was the admiration of all.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 236, 18 July 1947, Page 3
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