{"id":1100,"date":"2012-06-11T10:59:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2012-08-10T20:35:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T02:35:21","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-3-9-june-1940-we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 3&#8211;9 June 1940: We shall fight on the beaches&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=1104\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1104\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1104\" title=\"Winston Churchill\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wchurchill2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wchurchill2.jpg 210w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wchurchill2-105x150.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>This week in the war, on 4 June 1940, Winston Churchill declares to the House of Commons that the nation will continue to fight, no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s army has been successfully evacuated from Dunkirk&#8212;minus all of its equipment. The country is virtually unarmed. In the whole of the British Isles, there are only 500 field guns, many of which are museum-pieces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=1990\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1990\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1990\" title=\"By Mr. Kessell, War Office Official Photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Whomeguard1-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Whomeguard1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Whomeguard1-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Whomeguard1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The hastily thrown together Local Defence Volunteers&#8212;shortly after to be renamed &#8216;The Home Guard&#8217;&#8212;are shown on the right (and were more recently featured on a 60 pence memorial postage stamp, drilling with broom handles).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war, on 4 June 1940, Winston Churchill declares to the House of Commons that the nation will continue to fight, no matter what. &#8220;We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,85,86],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-churchill","tag-home-guard","tag-local-defence-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}