"Tanks came to the casino" This material of mine is the 1111th in a row, which means it is a little mystical, just as the materials that fall under the numbers 666 and 999 are “mystical”. And I would like it to be different from something ordinary, ordinary … But what to write about? About the malevolent "them" who turn and run everything, who clearly came from the planet Nibiru, took our appearance and live among us? About the "harmful" powerful Illuminati, Jesuits, Mormons, Freemasons, eunuchs, Cathars … "Spies" who "spied" everything, and traitors who betrayed everything, and for some reason only here, and not "where", in theory, they would only work?..
A world full of secrets and secrets
It would be possible to write about "secrets", and not imaginary, all kinds of Tartaria and Hyperboreans, but, say, the phenomenon of xenoglossia, when children (and sometimes adults) suddenly begin to speak in unknown languages, and often very ancient. After all, it is known that culture is not transmitted through the bed. But something can be seen transmitted, although not at all.
Or about displacements in time and space, seemingly even confirmed by quite documented, but still not finding an explanation. Or about the scientifically proven fact that there are always more latecomers and people who have returned tickets for dead planes, ships and trains than for those that safely reached their destination. Many say they saw the future catastrophe in their dreams. But how can this be checked, where are the statistics data?
I thought about dreams and remembered that once, yes, only once I happened to become a participant in a strange dream that never happened again, and just really mystical. That is, it is quite suitable for the number "1111" and … for the theme of the "Military Review"!
Unread article in an unopened journal
And it so happened that one day I got hold of the journal of the late M. Svirin "Polygon", in which there was an article I needed about the raid on Dieppe. But the fact is that I'm used to doing everything in detail, slowly. Therefore, I did not rush to read it, but put the magazine on the table in anticipation of the appointed hour. I knew very little about the raid on Dieppe itself, in fact, only that I had read about it in the TSB long ago in Soviet times, well, and it is clear that I remembered little of this. With the thought that tomorrow I would definitely need to read it, I fell asleep … And when I woke up (or was it just a dream?), I saw myself in the wheelhouse of some large warship, behind the windows of which the shore was visible, above where thick smoke rose, flashes of shots and explosions of shells flashed. Deafening - their shots could be heard even here, - the ship's guns beat, here and there fountains of water rise from the sea. There are several officers nearby, dressed in uniforms that I did not know at all, and then suddenly one of them addresses me in English. Why I experienced a wild fear, because at first I could not understand it in any way, and then because I did not know what to answer him. But on the other hand, I, in general, understood everything he was talking about …
- The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Regiment and the Essex Scottish Regiment lay under enemy fire and cannot fulfill their task. Regiment Le Fusilier Mont-Royal suffers heavy losses from German mortars and snipers. From the coast, they report that they still have not been able to overcome the coastal strip. The tanks of the 14th Canadian Tank Regiment landed ashore in the number of twenty-seven vehicles, but only six crossed the coastal strip, and now they are fighting in the city and on the embankment. The tanks went to the casino building, and it was captured. But units of the Saskatchewan Regiment and the Cameron Highlanders' Royal Personal Regiment in the Green Zone faced great difficulties. Very heavy losses in officers, sir. The enemy fires exceptionally strong and constantly brings reserves …
Questions and answers
"Tanks came out to the casino." Somewhere I have already come across this phrase. And I remember that just after that the rout began there. But where was it? In order to gain time and at least learn something, I asked, composing a phrase from English words that I knew well:
- What about the support from the air? (What do we have with air support?)
And the officer understood me perfectly, because he immediately said:
“There is an air battle in the area above the beachhead, so effective air support is hardly possible now, sir. Although the Air Force headquarters say that they are doing everything they can …
- Yes, this Dieppe is a tough nut to crack, - I heard the words of one of the officers standing to my right, and immediately understood everything!
So this is what it is, it means that I am now, one might say, participating in the famous "raid on Dieppe", which was conceived for an incomprehensible reason and ended in a terrible failure for the British. And it turns out that I am in charge of all this here now, because those who are here are looking at me and are clearly waiting for instructions from me! I tried to remember what happened there and how, but I only remembered the name and rank of the one who commanded this landing - Major General John Hamilton Roberts. Then a phrase emerged from some article or the same Wikipedia that he gave the order to retreat "without fully clarifying the situation" and also that a lot of Englishmen and Canadians were killed there.
“But we will defeat them anyway! - for some reason I suddenly thought and glanced at my watch. It seems that the order to retreat was given at 11.00, and now it is exactly five minutes to eleven! Well, well, I have a full five minutes to make a decision.
How can I say this in English?
Meanwhile, swearing and calls for help rushed from the radio, launched to communicate with the coast, then a tank got in touch with the headquarters and said that it was running out of ammunition. “That's all, it's completely pointless to drive new people here to slaughter! - I thought quite clearly. We must give the order to immediately begin the evacuation. But how do you say it in English? Moreover, as soon as I thought about it, I immediately remembered that I knew this word, that I had already met it somewhere. But as often happens, the word spins on your tongue, but you just can't remember it. My forehead was even sweating from the effort, and it was then that I remembered it! I remembered, and immediately gave the order:
- Immediately start re-embarkation! Transfer to the commanders of all units to withdraw their units from the battle. All landing craft go to the shore - take them on board. Support ships - the most intense fire along the entire coastline to suppress the enemy. And call the planes to … well … cover us with smoke!
None of the staff officers - that's what they, the British, have discipline - expressed any emotions, and even as if no one was surprised. Only the radio operator began to shout into the microphone: “The order of the commander: immediately start re-embarkation! Reembarcation - Immediately! All ships go to the shore to take the landing! I repeat …"
Out of excitement - after all, I just gave a historic order on behalf of the general of the British army - I suddenly felt somehow unwell, as if my chest were tight and I couldn't breathe. So I threw open the armored door and went out onto the bridge. There the ship's guns roared deafeningly, and the green sea water here and there boiled with foamy breakers from the explosions of shells and bombs. A German Ju-87 bomber with white and black crosses on the wings and fuselage, and a ridiculous landing gear sticking out below, and … a drop of a bomb immediately came off it, and it seemed to me, flew straight into my side! Then she fell a hundred meters from the side and exploded with a deafening roar, throwing a high fountain of water into the sky. Cold water splashed in my face … and at that very second I felt that I was awake!
"There are many things in nature, friend Horatio …" Isn't there?
The first thing that I felt at the same time was cold, as if I had just gone to bed, although, falling asleep, I well remembered the lulling feeling of warmth and comfort when I fell asleep. Then, touching my face, I found that it was all wet, and when I tasted the water, I found that it was … salty, that is, sea!
"Blimey! - I thought, covered with cold, sticky sweat. - It turns out that in a dream I moved into the body of General Roberts, in 1942! However, my consciousness did not come into contact with his consciousness in any way, because at first I did not even know who I was, where I was, and besides, I constantly had to look for English words I knew, although I definitely spoke in his voice!"
In the morning, the first thing I did was look at the magazine I had brought in. There was a lot there, so it was not easy to get to the bottom - too many details. In Wikipedia, there was not a word about the order without sufficient reason. Apparently, it was a phrase from TSB.
It seems that science has established that movements in a dream happen, although documenting them, of course, is very difficult. It is known, for example, a trip in a dream, witnessed by other people, which was made by the wife of a certain Wilmot, an American businessman. What L. Watson told in his book "Romeo's Error". But it was just such a case, or was it just a "game of the sleeping mind", I can not judge, although the dream itself was so bright, so "alive" that one involuntarily wants to believe that it was like that, including the taste of sea water … And the memory of him will remain with me for the rest of my life.
