All the time they were being embarked the troops were bombed and machine-gunned from the air. Many were still wet from having had to swim and wade out to ships, At another centre Reuter correspondents saw officers and men of the Belgian and French Armies and naval ratings who also arrived from France, "It has been simply hell," they said. "But we are getting off the boys who have stood in the triangle and resisted the worst the Germans could do to them, and believe me the Nazis don't love you.
"Our airmen have done magnificent work but it is volume we need. From the minute we reached France we
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