Quote from: jimduncanuk on 16 December 2016, 05:23:55 PM
13 seconds into the trailer there is a Union Flag and it is wrongly made.

If they can't get a Union Flag correct then heaven help them with the rest of the details.

The broad white stripe, which is atop the red saltire branch going to the top of the pole, should then be followed by thin, thick, thin, thick, thin whichever direction you go, clockwise or anti clockwise.

Mollinary

Quote from: Zippee on 17 December 2016, 09:50:40 AM
My first thought was

"where's all the French then?"

looks like more anglophile myth BS to me

The more likely response to a blockbuster is surely, "Where's all the Americans then?"

1. We will believe Dunkirk was a small village in Scotland.
2. Putting the French in it would only further confuse us.
3. We make no distinction between the 1707 flag and the 1801 flag (in freeze frame it looks correct - the one on beach in beginning).
We know you guys are the ones with the red, white and blues crosses and X's.

I will see the movie because I remember reading in the 1950's (in Readers Digest I think) "The Miricle of Dunkirk" and was very taken by the story.

Nosher, thanks for sharing your family history - hard price.

Oops - on further study you are right! About the flag! Apologies.

At first I thought it was upside down - but no OR fly and staff reversed - not that either - Chinese knock-off?

Quote from: d_Guy on 17 December 2016, 03:48:51 PM
Oops - on further study you are right! About the flag! Apologies.

At first I thought it was upside down - but no OR fly and staff reversed - not that either - Chinese knock-off?

It's easy enough to fly the Union flag upside down, I see them like that all the time, even in the UK, it's just plain ignorance.

There are also flag making companies who make them wrongly and that is worse than ignorance, it's insulting.

At least ours is unmistakable upside-down or reversed but from time to time I  see the star pattern (and/or count) incorrect for the proported period. Even now an occasional 48 star will show up (and much rarer, a 49).  That's more thrift than ignorance but poor protocol none the less.

To quote Abe Simpson"The flag only has 49 stars because I refuse to acknowledge Wisconsin."

There a lot of that going on at the moment 

When it comes to Brexit I think that for once the Americans trumped it!

Quote from: Leman on 17 December 2016, 02:09:40 PM
The more likely response to a blockbuster is surely, "Where's all the Americans then?"

So true - of course Dunkirk is their fault - bloody late a usual 

To be fair, it wasn't that long after that the USN steamed its battleships up and down the North Sea looking for an accident to happen so they could enthusiastically apply the principle of armed neutrality.

Probably the best scenario for getting USN battleships to fight Kreigsmarine battleships tbh

My Grandad was a tad unlucky in the Battle of France and Dunkirk. His unit was patiently waiting for pick up (he was a cobbler in the service elements of 51st Highland), when they heard over the BBC radio that the last British soldiers in France had been successfully picked up the night before and were safely back in the UK, HUZZAH! Needless to say the rest of "his war" was spent in rather unpleasant circumstances in German PoW camps. Or later, being marched starving and barefoot around Eastern Europe.

Interesting in both cases, Pixie. Another unheralded benefit of the forum is many of the personal stories.

The USN "hello, do you mind us parking battleships here? How about here? Was that a sub? Oooo nearly ran it over. How about we sail riiiiight alooooong here, no no, we're not doing convoy escort, just happen to be cruising along locked and loaded next to them" might have been '41, to be fair

There's a very good book written by another PoW about his experiences, which were pretty much the same as my Grandads. I've a copy upstairs in the book pile somewhere, think it's the Longest March or Last March? Never managed to finish it as it's actually a bit close to home in places!

My first platoon  sergeant/minder  was a Dunkirk vet. 96 Royal Marines were sent into Calais  as a rear guard "the Sacrifice Army"
His  story is on line at WW2talk.com .  Churchill ordered it.  They held out until 26 May.

Bill was a professional soldier and after sojourn in a POW camp resumed his career with Royals. He served in Korea and a lot of other minor scraps.   Bill died in 2011 aged 88. I am proud to have served with him, and to have enjoyed the comradeship of that generation.

Crikey, he was young then. Join up at 17, get posted, get sacrificed?