Dunkirk, The new evidence

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If you're interested, a book about the air battles covering the Dunkirk evacuation is out next month from Simon Parry's publishing house (Red Kite). 192 pages covering every combat in those critical days. He's a top notch researcher, so for anyone interested, get a copy.
 

Joey66 said:
If that pen shoot out was Adolf getting the atom bomb first the yes, started to,watch it tonight will get it on catch up tv - as I had an important phone call tonight ;)
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Indian double glazing guy called Kevin ?........
 
Joey66 said:
If that pen shoot out was Adolf getting the atom bomb first the yes, started to,watch it tonight will get it on catch up tv - as I had an important phone call tonight ;)
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Spoiler alert Joe.
Read no further.
Soz about the lack of little blue tag official thing but I haven't a clue re that.

















If it's the one that I saw, once the heavy water got destroyed in Norway - brave chaps those chaps.(..pity about the rs stuff now)
It shows that they had all their eggs in the one basket and thus where no where near it
 
I have my grandads two Dunkirk bravery medals.
His ship went across and rescued a load of soldiers and got them back to Southampton. [I think]
The ship he was on was then shortly afterwards was declared 'missing in action' by the Royal Navy as they hadn't a clue where it went after leaving the docks. A telegram was sent to my grandma.
The captain and crew had decided they would go back to Dunkirk and do a second rescue mission and to give a 2 finger salute to the nazis.

The word 'hero' is banded about to loosely. They were heroes.

Today we worry about a football result and a new signing. Lucky aint we.
 

An interesting documentary.

Strange it took so long for the Public records office to release these files.

The reputation of the RAF (at Dunkirk)was for so long unfairly tarnished.
 
LEONARD said:
An interesting documentary.

Strange it took so long for the Public records office to release these files.

The reputation of the RAF (at Dunkirk)was for so long unfairly tarnished.
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Military files from WW2 were usually under the 30 year rule (i.e. 1940 files became available in the [old] Public Record Office in 1975). Some files (e.g. German prisoner interogation reports) were under the 75 year rule, athough I don't believe the individual full interrogation reports will ever be put in the public domain - there is simply too much incriminatory evidence against the individual in them. Only the interrogation summaries are publicly available at present, and that is only because we shared such information with the USA during the war, and in the 1990s US researchers obtained copies of the Summaries under their 'Freedom of Information' Act, thus letting the proverbial cat out of the bag.

There must have been things in those RAF files that were of a sensitive nature for them to be closed for 75 years...
 
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