Brigadier Fox Pitt. He was no accomplished General or heroic martyr. It was 1940 He was trapped with the 20th brigade at Boulogne as the rest of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) was evacuated from Dunkirk and left in charge of its defense. He had been abandoned the night before by the HQ staff and the Germans were expected that day.
He received a personal telegram from Churchill thanking him and telling him that there was no rescue because every second he held out was a second the German army was kept from Dunkirk. He had a few Welsh, Irish, British and Free french troops at his disposal and somehow managed to get defenses set up before the Germans arrived. He had just a few thousand troops to defend the city and did a damn good job defending it against the panzer 2nd division and the German army that followed.
Were it not for his and his mens sacrifice Dunkirk and operation Dynamo would have gone allot worse.
Wait... does this mean im not human?
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