Profile picture
WW2 Tweets from 1940 @RealTimeWWII
, 4 tweets, 1 min read Read on Twitter
Bill Hersey is the first British soldier stationed in France to be given a permanent sleeping-out pass; today he marries a local French girl, Augusta Six.
Bill & Augusta met in her father's café after the army truck her was driving broke down; neither speaks the others' language, so Bill courted (& proposed) with the aid of a pocket dictionary.
One British soldier ordered to evacuate from Dunkirk is Bill Hersey, who married a French girl, Augusta, 2 months ago. Bill's Captain tells him "Go & get her."
11.30PM Bill arrives at Augusta's house on bike: "Get your things. You're British now. This is the only way you can be safe." Disguised as a soldier in steel helmet & greatcoat, Augusta is smuggled aboard an army truck.
Missing some Tweet in this thread?
You can try to force a refresh.

Like this thread? Get email updates or save it to PDF!

Subscribe to WW2 Tweets from 1940
Profile picture

Get real-time email alerts when new unrolls are available from this author!

This content may be removed anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @RealTimeWWII see all

Profile picture
In Egypt, 30,000 British & Commonwealth troops are advancing deep into the desert- ready for a surprise attack on Italian invaders.
Allied forces hiding in no-man's land of the Egyptian desert; windscreens removed from vehicles so no Italian reconnaissance will spot tell-tale sun-glare.
30,000 Allied troops in Egyptian desert finally told they are not on an exercise. Tomorrow they attack Italian forts: huge raid, codenamed Compass.
Read 7 tweets
Profile picture
Hitler has called an emergency council with top German commanders, to decide whether to continue with Operation Sea Lion, planned invasion of Britain.
Hitler: "The efforts of the Luftwaffe are beyond praise- but we cannot bring England to her knees. We must be sure of successful invasion."
Operation Sea Lion is scheduled for 17 September, before autumn storms begin. By then, the Royal Air Force must be destroyed- next 3 days are Hitler's last hope for invasion of Britain.
Read 13 tweets
Profile picture
Winston Churchill now in House of Commons, to brief Parliament on British collapse in France; it's only his 4th speech as Prime Minister.
Churchill: "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations."
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas & oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence & growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be..."
Read 6 tweets

Related threads

Profile picture
This will be my #GiletsJaunes Thread of Tomorrow in #Paris and across #France! Keep this Thread open and refresh once it will start! I Will be reporting again in my Home Studio of the situation.
#Breaking: It's happening! Reports of the First #GiletsJaunes protestors arriving in #Paris. #ActeVIII
#Update: People are preparing their signs to go and protest. #GiletsJaunes #ActeVIII
Read 140 tweets
Profile picture
Once again: the #Macron regime use tear gas as new #YellowVest rallies against govt fuel tax reforms hit #Paris #GiletsJaunes #France #resistance #1Dicembre #1D
#Breaking: peaceful participants in #Paris were brutal hitting by police #GiletsJaunes #YellowVests #1D #France #1erDecembre #resistance
🚧 Around the Place de l'Etoile, in #Paris, the first tensions took place between the police & #GiletsJaunes before 9am this morning #France #YellowVests #1erDecembre #1D #Macron #resistance
Read 37 tweets
Profile picture
1/ The #Saudi kidnapping of #Khashoggi reminds me of the kidnapping of #Hariri. It is meant to embarrass the other party, this time the gov of #Turkey, and provoke a diplomatic crisis. This is drug Cartel methods. It has no other goal than to assert power over the other.
2/ However, resorting to these methods to assert power in the political and international affairs sphere is always a sign of weakness and a sign of a power in crisis. #SaudiArabia
Read 216 tweets
Profile picture
hearing—"#China's Worldwide #Military Expansion" is a dramatic bellwether of growing concerns in Washington & beyond.

Now online—hard-hitting arguments + many data points, some deeply-analyzed yet hard to find elsewhere in public domain:
bit.ly/HouseIC
CAPT Jim Fanell, USN Ret, former @USPacificFleet N2:

"today, the PLA Navy consists of over 330 surface ships & 66 submarines, nearly 400 combatants. As of 4 May 2018, the @USNavy consists of 283 battle force ships: 211 surface ships and 72 submarines."
bit.ly/HouseIC
"By 2030, it is estimated [by Fanell & @SCheneyPeters in their chapter in @NavalWarCollege @ChinaMaritime Studies Institute's Chinese Naval Shipbuilding volume amazon.com/Chinese-Naval-… @USNIBooks that] the PLANavy will consist of some 550 ships: 450 surface ships & 99 submarines."
Read 71 tweets
Profile picture
Critically ill Russian national is 66yo Sergei Skripal, former intel colonel/double agent granted refuge in UK after a 2010 "spy swap" between US & Russia. He and a woman were apparently poisoned in/near Salisbury shopping center. bbc.in/2D2oj7X
Ex-Russian spy & daughter 'poisoned' in UK sparks fears of another Kremlin-backed hit. Investigators scrambling to identify the chemical used. Skripal feared for his life after his wife died in a car crash & his son was killed in a road incident.. thesun.co.uk/news/5733372/s…
UK warns Kremlin over poisoning of ex-spy Skripal & his daughter. Recalling Litvinenko murder, FM Johnson said UK was "in the lead across the world" in trying to counteract a "host of malign activity" by Russia.

Skripal's brother, son & wife have been killed in the last 2 year.
Read 76 tweets

Trending hashtags

#operations #sanctions #Borissov #video #Taiwan #ViktoriaMarinova #warrior #thebigwhiteconservationlie #thugs #Christians #shipbuilding #modernization #EricDrouet #doom #Parlement #Toulon #Kursk #solarbikes #Stratifiedreproduction #Iran #giroditalia #Assad #SavePirin #economy #EndMoneyBail

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member and get exclusive features!

Premium member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year)

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!