Recovered Journal Entry #1:
French General Maurice Gamelin has heard news that the German Army forces known as "Group B" are subduing the Netherlands in the east and advancing toward France westward through Belgium.
We know an attack is coming so we act in preparation.
My General, one of the Supreme Allied Forces Commanders, has initiated a plan known as the Maginot Line. A line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun post, and other defenses that are constructed on France's borders in order to protect it from the German army.
But the Germans snaked around our one walled defense! They ran through the Ardennes forest and the Low Countries of France, completely sweeping by the line. My French leaders and commanders Maxime WEygand, Georges Blanchard, Rene Prioux, and Lord Gort were astonished. All very great strategists, all bewildered by their oversight.
The German and Italian army finally reached us on May 14, 1940.
But German arms had used their maneuver they called the "Sickle Cut" to effectively flank our forces.
Plans made by better German Generals, Gerd von Rundstedt and Ewald von Klesit, very capable men.
We French ran from the German and Italian attack, we cowards! Our French generals initiated our plan of escape, code-named "Operation Dynamo" or otherwise known as the Miracle of Dunkirk. Every member of the Allied forces helped us to safety from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France. And so our short encounter with the German/Italian forces ends.
Javert Bontecou
French armed force
