Bartimeus On Evacuation From Dunkirk

Bartimeus on Evacuation from Dunkirk.
In this BBC broadcast [recorded in New Zealand via short wave radio] Bartimeus [Lewis Ritchie] the British naval author, describes the evacuation from Dunkirk of the British Expeditionary Force and thousands of French and Belgian forces. [Operation Dynamo]

He visited vessels as they docked in the ports of southern England and talked to men about their evacuation under fire from German aircraft.
He describes sailing in a destroyer to Dunkirk himself and seeing an oil tank explode after being hit by a shell. Thousands of men were waiting patiently on the beach and climbed on board up scaling ladders. A German bomber began shelling them.
He describes the English Channel as the sun came up, looking something like Henley Regatta, dotted with boats of every size.