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#Dunkirk80 - ‘Hold to the last round, to the last man.’ Like the Norfolk’s at Le Paradis only 24 hours earlier the 2/Royal Warwicks & gunners of the Royal Cheshire’s had offered fierce resistance and held up the SS Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler Regt. advance for several hours...#OTD 
even giving its OC Sepp Dietrich a very happy 48th birthday, having his car shot-up and forced to take cover under fire in a ditch for most the day.
Eventually overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers and German tanks, the SS rounded up many of the survivors...
Eventually overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers and German tanks, the SS rounded up many of the survivors...
One group of 90-100 British POWs was marched across the fields and herded into a barn by 12 SS guards.
The only officer present, Captain Lynn-Allen - complained to the SS Guards about the conditions and lack of space for the wounded to lie down. One of Guard’s replied...
The only officer present, Captain Lynn-Allen - complained to the SS Guards about the conditions and lack of space for the wounded to lie down. One of Guard’s replied...
