Posted on 07/20/2020 7:55:46 PM PDT by Perseverando
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Britain on May 10, 1940.
World War II would rage another year and a half before the entrance of Unite States.
The situation in Europe was desperate, as two massive Nazi armies were driving back British, French, Dutch, Polish and Belgian troops to the English Channel, bottling them up in the port of Dunkirk.
The Belgian army surrendered.
If the British forces were destroyed, Britain would be forced to negotiate a surrender.
For reasons still debated, Hitler approved an order on May 24 to halt for three days the advance of 800,000 Nazi troop, possibly to consolidate his forces or to let the Nazi Luftwaffe air force complete the annihilation.
King George VI, Winston Churchill, and all the people of Britain prayed, and on May 27, they courageously rallied a nine day evacuation.
In what came to be called "the spirit of Dunkirk," British citizens sailed their fishing boats, commercial vessels, private crafts, pleasure cruisers, and transport ferries across the English Channel.
Miraculously, the sea was still as glass, and clouds hid them from the N azi Luftwaffe air force.
Nazi office Halder wrote in his diary, May 30, 1940:
"Brauchitsch is angry ... The bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and we must now stand and watch countless thousands of the enemy get away to England right under our noses."
The Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, Rev. Walter Matthews, called it the "Miracle of Dunkirk," in his address, June 2, 1940:
"It was remembered that the Archbishop of Canterbury had announced that the Day of National Prayer might well be a turning point, and it was obvious to many that God had answered the nation's collective prayer with the 'miracle of Dunkirk' ...
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MFL.
It’s no wonder the Kenyan from Indonesia hated Churchill so much he sent the bust back.
Churchill was right about Islam and socialism, both things that Obama was pushing on America.
But, Churchill and Obama have so much in common! They were #1 in each of their countries.
Churchill was the great savior of Great Britain.
Obama was the great destroyer of America.
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