[BITList] 70th. Anniversary of Dunkirk Evacuation

[HUGH]

Mike,

Maybe the LANCASTRIA is what is sometimes called "an inconvenient truth". 
Perhaps they and such as they are saying of the dead, in retrospect - no 
great mischief if they fell.  In this I slightly misquote a British general 
at the siege of Quebec, referring to his Scots soldiers.  The young, 
inexperienced, Americans who were slaughtered on Omaha beach during the 
first D-day landings there, were scheduled to die in place of the more 
experienced and hard to replace comrades who went in later.  Or am I getting 
cynical?

Hugh.