The German View of Dunkirk: 26th May 1940
On the morning of 26 May key commanders assembled at the fourth floor of the Calais Opera House, on the Boulevard Leon Gambetta. It provided excellent observation, completely overlooking Nicholson’s perimeter. They gathered amid an air of tense expectancy. At SaintPol airfield Messerschmitt fighter pilot Leutnant von Kageneck with Jägergeschwader I recalled, ‘we were waiting ready strapped into our cockpits as the bomb-laden Stukas crossed over’.