GERMAN INFANTRY
♦ CANNOT FACE COLD STEEL Soldiers of the Guards regiments, who joined Highland troops in ficrce bayonet charges on Flanders hills, said that Gefman shock troops attacked regardless of everything except cold steel, when they immediately fell back. One Guardsman said: "The shock troops were all big fellows, and they came over completely ignoring our bullets. They wore armourplated waistcoats, but they ran when we advanced with the bayonet. Their ordinary infantry are poor. Many are mere children of 17 years, who said they did not want to fight." Another guardsman said the German losses were 20 to 1 compared with the British. Arrivals revealed that 100 French warships and 200 merchantmen co-operated in the defence and evacuation of Dunkirk. An extraordinary break in the hills, said that German shock troops weather, transforming the notoriously rough English Channel into "a!m and smooth waters, made po>: jjp.le the use of the moscnilte (1 :ct.~
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 171, 10 June 1940, Page 6
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154GERMAN INFANTRY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 171, 10 June 1940, Page 6
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