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Archive for November, 1995

Canadian Military History in Perspective

The Battle Over Britain: Army, Part 3

When Winston Churchill rose to speak in the British House of Commons on June 4, 1940, the rescue of British and French troops from Dunkirk was complete.The attempts to create a second British Expeditionary Force for France could not disguise the scale of the disaster that had overcome the Allies, and Churchill made no attempt to do so. “Wars,” he insisted, “are not won by evacuations.” There was, however, “a victory inside the deliverance … gained by the air force” that had protected the hundreds of ships and prevented the enemy from gaining air superiority over the beaches. The air […]

November 1, 1995, by Terry Copp

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