02-01-11, 15:44
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Richard Harrison
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Cullercoats Newcastle Upon Tyne United Kingdom
Posts: 3,068
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lynn Eades
Can I humbly suggest that the U.K had no CMP's before Dunkirk, the withdrawal from the beaches taking a week, from 26th may 1940, and all gone by the 1st june 1940.
according to my book they left behind; 2,472 guns,63,879 vehicles,20,548 motorcycles,76,097 tons of ammo. 68000 men were killed injured or taken prisoner, and 40,000 were captured when Dunkirk fell
The book is called" the Sands of Dunkirk, by Richard Collier.
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hence why the Germans had them in service ? hence my post ? asking if the Norway events were post Dunkirk and could explain the use of allied vehicles by the Germans
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