Dunkirk Film

[JayFramer]

Was at the picture show today watching Wolverine movie and they had a trailer for Dunkirk, looked really good and intense. WW2 movies are cool, should be released this summer.

Jay

 

[shouldazagged]

Looks as if there's a lot of money spent on authenticity. I just hope there are no extraneous romantic sub-plots. It's too magnificent a story to clutter up.

 

[steveno]

it would have been nice to have this guy for a history teacher

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7MEbSgcEfA[/ame]

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I don't think it was much fun for the guys trying to get on the boats, or their rearguard. I understand the French Army had the elan left to take a few hours off of surrendering en masse long enough to help the English and some off their own troops to escape. Interesting times, the French left and right both preferred the Germans to each other, and both got their wish.

 

[the ringo kid]

Was at the picture show today watching Wolverine movie and they had a trailer for Dunkirk, looked really good and intense. WW2 movies are cool, should be released this summer.

Jay

Ive been waiting on this one for about 5 years now as well as a remake of Dambusters-which is directed by Peter Jackson.

 

[the ringo kid]

I don't think it was much fun for the guys trying to get on the boats, or their rearguard. I understand the French Army had the elan left to take a few hours off of surrendering en masse long enough to help the English and some off their own troops to escape. Interesting times, the French left and right both preferred the Germans to each other, and both got their wish.

Read Miracle At Dunkirk--by Walter Lord. Its THE best book ive ever read on the subject. The French were not the cowards many think them to be. They for the most part-had stupid or lazy generals.

 

[Dave_n]

Roughly 30% of the troops taken off were French, a point that is often missed. Dave_n

 

[Cardboard_killer]

I don't think it was much fun for the guys trying to get on the boats, or their rearguard. I understand the French Army had the elan left to take a few hours off of surrendering en masse long enough to help the English and some off their own troops to escape.

Most of the French were returned to France and some fought again before the surrender. In the weeks of May and June, a quarter as many French troops were killed fighting the Germans as the US lost in the entire war.

French troops, when well led, performed well. Indeed, Free French troops (not the FFI) performed as well as, or better than US troops when they shared the line in 1943-45. And Vichey troops gave the US a bloody nose or two in Africa, despite having very little heart for fighting the US.

 

[shouldazagged]

Read Miracle At Dunkirk--by Walter Lord. Its THE best book ive ever read on the subject. The French were not the cowards many think them to be. They for the most part-had stupid or lazy generals.

I get very tired of jokes about the cowardly French. Especially when I study the history of the Resistance, but there is plenty of information about tough heroism of French troops.

It's hard to prevail in a modern war when your commanding generals have been busy preparing to fight World War I 2.0.

 

[the ringo kid]

Roughly 30% of the troops taken off were French, a point that is often missed. Dave_n

That would be around 100,000 or more.

 

[the ringo kid]

I get very tired of jokes about the cowardly French. Especially when I study the history of the Resistance, but there is plenty of information about tough heroism of French troops.

It's hard to prevail in a modern war when your commanding generals have been busy preparing to fight World War I 2.0.

Me too,, I knew an elderly gent who was in the French army, and his unit was attached to Lord Gorts HQ, as some sort of a guard? unit or reserves? I forget which? This same man also volunteered for the Foreign Legion so he could fight the Viet Minh-around 1950 or so?