From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was listening to an old soldier speaking on the radio about Dunkirk and saying the BEF were reduced to firing blanks from their rifles and had blown their artillery up while retreating for lack of shells and in order that the guns shouldn't fall into German hands. My uncle told me that while with the BEF he'd seen a soldier throwing his Lee Enfield away and asked him why. The soldier said, Major I've had 40 rounds a day to fight with on this campaign when I needed 200 to 300 rounds a day and I haven't had any ammunition AT ALL for the past three weeks. Perhaps all those soldiers who left Dunkirk without their rifles - as seen on the films of the event - felt likewise? Seems to have been some kind of a supplies shortage - er, while lines of supply were shortening as a result of the BEF's retreat? And after Churchill had been in charge of munitions supply in the Great War, too... Could our esteemed government be LYING to us? STILL, after 60 years? There's another major inconsistency in The Official Tale - the divebombers were doing their damnedest against the troops on the seashore while the German army was holding back because Hitler didn't want to upset the British too much? I won't tell you what my uncle told me about that - or the supplies shortage - because you wouldn't believe me! But I don't really see why the government should get away with their lies. Regards Norman Bassett drakenfels.org -- The "official tale" as you call it is a political theory put forward by some german historian, and even he says that it is subjective. Steve. -------[Cybershooters contacts]-------- Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
