THIS DAY IN WW2 (31.5.40)
On the Western Front... This is the most successful day of the Dunkirk evacuation, with 68,014 men being taken to Britain. The ships lost include one destroyer and six more are damaged. General Gort returns to Britain after handing over command of the remnant of the BEF to General Alexander as ordered. There are considerable air battles over the beaches at various stages during the day in which the RAF claim to shoot down 38 German aircraft for the loss of 28. In fact the figures are nearer equality.
In Norway... The British blocking force is evacuated from Bodo.
In Britain... A series of measures, including the removal of all direction signs from crossroads, is taken to counter worries about fifth-column and parachute attacks.
In Washington... President Roosevelt introduces a "billion-dollar defense program" which is designed to boost the United States military strength significantly.
TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging and seminar prep interspersed with family time.
TODAY'S THOUGHT
If you arrive into this life with nothing and leave with nothing, that would suggest its purpose is not to get but to give.
TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
There are those who get it straight away, those who never get it and those who get it eventually - I think I'm the latter.
TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
What to you is precious?
TODAY'S ONELINER
Are unborn twins womb-mates? : D
GARY'S 100 CLASSIC ALBUMS YOU MUST OWN No.46
FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
The greatest AOR Album ever recorded!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GN2kpBoFs4
TRIVIA
Zero and infinity are mathematically indestructible - any attempt to divide or multiply them will yield the result unchanged from the start. They are both unchangeable and eternal mathematically and literally. However, whereas zero has no effect on other quantities (x + 0 = x) Infinity "swallows" everything. (x + inf = inf).
TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
How may I serve?
On the Western Front... This is the most successful day of the Dunkirk evacuation, with 68,014 men being taken to Britain. The ships lost include one destroyer and six more are damaged. General Gort returns to Britain after handing over command of the remnant of the BEF to General Alexander as ordered. There are considerable air battles over the beaches at various stages during the day in which the RAF claim to shoot down 38 German aircraft for the loss of 28. In fact the figures are nearer equality.
In Norway... The British blocking force is evacuated from Bodo.
In Britain... A series of measures, including the removal of all direction signs from crossroads, is taken to counter worries about fifth-column and parachute attacks.
In Washington... President Roosevelt introduces a "billion-dollar defense program" which is designed to boost the United States military strength significantly.
TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging and seminar prep interspersed with family time.
TODAY'S THOUGHT
If you arrive into this life with nothing and leave with nothing, that would suggest its purpose is not to get but to give.
TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
There are those who get it straight away, those who never get it and those who get it eventually - I think I'm the latter.
TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
What to you is precious?
TODAY'S ONELINER
Are unborn twins womb-mates? : D
GARY'S 100 CLASSIC ALBUMS YOU MUST OWN No.46
FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
The greatest AOR Album ever recorded!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GN2kpBoFs4
TRIVIA
Zero and infinity are mathematically indestructible - any attempt to divide or multiply them will yield the result unchanged from the start. They are both unchangeable and eternal mathematically and literally. However, whereas zero has no effect on other quantities (x + 0 = x) Infinity "swallows" everything. (x + inf = inf).
TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
How may I serve?
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