Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
Out of interest, where do you get the idea that the French army surrenders more than the Brits from?

We legged it in 1940, not them, and the only reason we escaped is coz they suicided defending the outer perimeter.

Have the Frogs ever legged it like we did from Kabul in the 1st Afghan War? No.
30% of the troops taken off at Dunkirk were French, so they certainly did leg it.

One of the reasons the operation was possible was the brave perimeter action fought by French and British troops. More important was Hitler’s decision to halt the panzers - which were, in truth, desperately short of fuel and maintenance by that time. Furthermore, without the RAF containing the Luftwaffe before they reached the beaches, both troops and ships would have been bombed to nothing.

How did your precious Frogs get on when the winter turned a little chilly in Moscow, anyway? Oh yes, they turned round and slunk off home.