You knew this was the chance to get home and you kept praying.

Please, God, let us go. Get us out. Get us out of this mess back to England.

To see that ship that came in to pick me and my brother up, it was a most fantastic sight.

We saw dog fights up in the air, hoping nothing would happen to us, and we saw one or two

terrible sights. Then somebody said, there's Dover. That was when we saw the white cliffs. The

atmosphere was terrific. From hell to heaven was how the feeling was. You felt like a miracle had happened.

British Army soldier Harry Garrett.

Welcome to the history of the 20th century.

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The Episode 322.

Operation Dynamo

I ended last week's episode at a dramatic juncture Operation Dynamo.

I ended last week's episode at a dramatic juncture in the narrative on the morning of May 15, 1940. That morning, a mere five days after the German offensive had begun, French Prime Minister

Paul Rayno telephoned his British counterpart Winston Churchill and declared, we have been begun. French Prime Minister Paul Reynot telephoned his British counterpart,

Winston Churchill, and declared, we have been beaten. It may be that Rayneau was overreacting, a little,

you know those French, and Churchill had difficulty believing him. But his words would prove prophetic. A large German armored force had

threaded its way through the Ardennes, across Luxembourg and southern Belgium, had entered France

and crossed the river Mues at Céin, scattering every French defender in its path. Meanwhile, the British expeditionary force, along with the

cream of the French army, including crucially France's armored reserve, have been charging east

into northern Belgium. What this means is there is a powerful German armored force barely 200 kilometers from Paris,

and no French defenders in between, should the Germans choose to lunge for Paris.

Or it could mean that the northern flank of the Maginot line is undefended, allowing the Germans

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