I can't even imagine how those men must have felt...
After a long wait on the beaches, dad was eventually embarked straight onto a destroyer from the mole at Dunkirk. It was being heavily bombed and the holes had been filled in by driving trucks into them and then engineers laying planks on top. One on board, he remembers a sailor giving him a mug of tea and a bully-beef sandwich and then falling asleep.
He was also quite adamant that he witnessed no panic, that the units officers stayed with them, and that he and the men he saw all came off with their personal equipment, including rifles. Obviously, for men who had to wade out to boats, this was not always possible.
He also vividly recalled everyone firing rifles and Bren Guns at attacking bombers (likely Stuka's).
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“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'