1 THE REAL DAD’S ARMY
The boys who would make Hitler think again…
According to Winston Churchill’s memoirs, it was Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War, who “Proposed to the cabinet on May 13” the idea of raising Local Defence Volunteers. Churchill, who had been appointed Prime Minister only three days earlier (on the same day in 1940 that the Germans invaded the Low Countries), approved the suggestion and, within a month, The Times reported that 500,000 volunteers had come forward.