From May 22nd Reuters "Heroes of WW II recall Dunkirk rescue."
Winston Churchill called it a "miracle of deliverance" when 338,000 French and British soldiers were rescued from the approaching German Army at the beaches of Dunkirk May 27 to June 3, 1940. Naval ships along with a flotilla of pleasure boats and other small craft made many trips across the English Channel to do it.
A new exhibit on the event is opening at London's Imperial War Museum to commemorate it.
Romeo Jenkins, 91, was a member of the 91st Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery in northern France when orders came through to evacuate to Dunkirk. During the confusion of the withdrawal, he became separated from his unit and didn't get to the Channel until after the operation was over.
He lit his last cigarette and sat down to await his impending capture when he heard a voice calling foe him from a small boat taking the last men off the beach so he was quick to get over to it and aboard.
he hadn't slept for several days and the next thing he remembers is waking up in Britain by Dover.
Quite the Story of Heroism. --Cooter
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