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Dunkirk Evacuation
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Dunkirk Evacuation

(1940) In World War II, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and other Allied troops, cut off by the Germans, from the French seaport of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) to England. Naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats were used in the evacuation, which began on May 26. When it ended on June 4, about 198,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian troops had been saved. The operation's success was due to fighter cover by the RAF and (unintentionally) to Adolf Hitler's order of May 24 halting the advance of German armored forces into Dunkirk.
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After the evacuation of Dunkirk, clothes came in covered in maggots and lice.
Laundry history revealed by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Ann M James Blackwood, Gwent I AM disappointed that no campaign medals were awarded to personnel of the British Expeditionary Force, who fought in Belgium and France prior to the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940.
To the Point; your letters by The Mirror (London, England)
1940: The evacuation of Dunkirk which had begun on May 27 was completed.
Onthisday by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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