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18:57 Hours, 26 May 1940: The signal is given to evacuate British and French troops from Dunkirk’s beaches on the Northern coast of France.
13:57 Hours, 22 May 2004: The Tonsley time team re-claim the beach-head.
Over two days they were to deftly move from London-Dover-Calais-Dunkirk, and then strike into the French countryside, taking sites of great strategic importance.
It was a simple operation, executed with Churchillian gusto.
Floody Woolfy Ant
But first: The three drivers.
Without them nothing would have been possible.
Never before had so much been owed by so many to so few.
The view from the bedroom window at 18th Century converted Mill Hotel, Le Moulin de Mombreux, St Omer
Chair in a garden …And more flowersFlowers
Floody had kindly swung by the hairdresser’s that morning to pick up his Mum’s armoured car
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This defences were awesome – La Coupole – where V1 and V2’s were stored for launch. The concrete dome was almost impenetrable.
Almost.
We got in.
We were surrounded. I had never seen it thicker. The regiment’s attention had been successfully diverted.
There were cute French chicks everywhere.
Joe, the brains-trust of the operation, and Georgie struggle coming to terms with the fact he was equipped with no V2 flying rocket
Ant was gutted. There was to be no ‘Miracle of Dunkirk’.
But judging by the John Wayne walk, it soon became very clear there was somebody in the group packing a little more than the regulation field artillery…
“If you can read this you are standing too close”
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Shells on the seashore “For sale: V1 Flying Bomb. ONO. Cheap. Never flown. Perfectly safe. For enquiries please contact…”
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Mimoyecques – Site of the ‘Canon of London’
Rob’s absence throughout the weekend was noted… or was he actually there…?
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A German pillbox pokes out from the tall grass, with para-gliders soaring over the cliff edge
Atlantic wall defences.
There was dancing
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And skipping
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The infamous road signs outside 10 Tonsley Place, London
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Thanks, Joe