The country was fired by the epic of the small boats that had sailed, some as many as seven times, into the teeth of the Luftwaffe to bring back our Army; and among those who took their boats to Dunkirk was my cousin Reg Mytton. I heard of the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Gort, standing on the beach with two Guardsmen as loaders while he tried to shoot down German dive bombers with a rifle. He also told one of his staff officers, Captain George Gordon Lennox, that however few of the Army could be evacuated, priority was to be given to the R.A.F. pilots who had parachuted from aircraft shot down
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