1940: News - Dunkirk Evacuation
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Reporting from Dover, Bernard Stubbs describes the scene as the ships return from Dunkirk and the troops disembark. He then follows the soldiers onto trains as they head home and also boards a ship to see what the conditions were like. Stubbs notes that, regardless of the strife, the port was well organised and the troops in good spirits. When war broke out there was no regular foreign news service and no pool of foreign correspondents.
Bernard Stubbs was one of the few to file reports from the scene, observing troops from the BEF as they advanced towards Belgium and then retreated to Dunkirk, staying with them until the final stage of evacuation. Soon after this, he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and was killed a year later, in May 1941, while serving with it.
Originally broadcast on 31 May 1940.