145. Dunkirk - Day Five
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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🗓️ 30 May 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Churchill’s grip on the war cabinet begins to strengthen as the news from Dunkirk continues to improve. Record numbers of men are rescued from both the beaches and the East Mole. In this episode Al and James are joined by Seb Cox, head of the Air Historical Branch.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention, attention, action this day. Welcome to We Have Ways of making you talk. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm done cook, we can a bit. With me, Almari and James Holland. How are you James this morning? |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, no, I'm fine, thank you. I've busily been measuring first thing this morning to see |
| 0:21.7 | whether I can get the dodge in anywhere. It's not looking great, but where's the will? |
| 0:27.3 | What if it doesn't mantle the back half? Right, we'd distort it. |
| 0:33.1 | So today is May the 30th, so today we are talking about the events of May the 30th in the |
| 0:38.9 | Dunkirk evacuation, the battle for Dunkirk, the end of the battle for France, of France, depends on which |
| 0:47.6 | which is your preference. So what's happening today May the 30th in this crucial, the most important |
| 0:54.9 | week of history? Yeah, no, it's a comparatively quiet day in terms of really big events, but it's |
| 1:02.4 | a day that sees the advantage definitely shift towards the evacuation. No question about it. |
| 1:11.5 | And it's another day where there is not a drop of wind, so it's another kind of the channel |
| 1:18.3 | is looking like a like a mill pond. There are no crashing breakers on the beach and people giving |
| 1:23.1 | up and diving into it to drown themselves or anything like that. It's flat as a board, and actually |
| 1:28.4 | early in the morning it's low tide, and it is the 250th field company that start making a |
| 1:34.2 | makeshift jetty. So what they realize is actually we're abandoned all these vehicles, we're not |
| 1:38.7 | going to use them, we certainly don't want jerry to use them anymore. So let's just drive them into |
| 1:42.4 | the sea and create a jetty along which so that the guys can actually kind of walk along the |
| 1:48.8 | along the roofs. And actually it proves really, really quite successful. And the Germans are |
| 1:54.3 | finding it really, really hard going that that window of opportunity to shut the door absolutely |
| 1:59.8 | tight shut behind the retreating B.E.F. So that literally you know had the had the had the |
| 2:05.2 | had the hall torder that we've been talking about endlessly not happened, then I think it would |
| 2:09.3 | have been you know 30, 35, 40,000 that were evacuated. Yeah, because that doesn't happen suddenly |
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