Dunkirk

[r.morrison]

Amen Mr Warner for consulting with the big book in the hallway. In the back of my head I knew we had some forces there. But the question still remains......were there Cab 11/12's at Dunkirk or was this unit just a "prop" for the movie? I tried checking it out on line one more time but they kept saying I had to join a "club". F' that!! Maybe someone else can get in.
Cheers....Robert

[Bruce MacMillan]

I guess people don't check their facts before publishing. Websites like this
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK...on-of-Dunkirk/
publish erroneous info and the public begins to believe it.

There were Canadians at Dunkirk but were serving with British forces. I think the only official presence were the 4 destroyers of the RCN.

[Alex van de Wetering]

But the question still remains......were there Cab 11/12's at Dunkirk or was this unit just a "prop" for the movie

Robert, cab 12 production started at least a half year later than the actual Dunkirk evacuation, so we can be sure there were no cab 12's there at the time.

We have a terrific thread here on the forum regarding the first CMP's in france 1940
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1426

I think all pictures of CMP's in France 1940 we have found so far, are taken around Brest and in hands of Canadian units.....or their new German owners.

Alex

[Mike Cecil]

Saw this last evening in the luxury seating at the North Town Mall cinema. I'm glad I was comfortable, but it only partially made up for all the wincing I found myself doing involuntarily throughout this movie. The positives were few: some nice air to air combat footage and Spitfire cockpit scenes (though the single HE-111's return fire sounded like a 30mm cannon!).

The negatives were legion. Clean beaches and uniforms, very very small numbers of extras trying to look like 300,000+, modern container handling cranes in the background of numerous shots, not one wrecked building in the town or along the foreshore esplanade, despite the bombing and artillery bombardment .... an anchored mine sweeper that, when bombed, rolls over on its side, but then stops and doesn't sink .... the list could go on and on and on... in summary, 'too many to list', to use a well known MV collector phrase!

As for CMPs, I'm reasonably sure I glimpsed a cab 13 from the rear 3/4 angle in a brief sweep along the abandoned vehicles on the esplanade. Might well be wrong: by that late stage in the film, my incredulity had well and truly set in.

If there was a story line, I think I missed it in all the jumping back and forth in time.

Final summation: pathetic. Don't waste your time or money.

Mike