Dunkirk Evacuation

British troops being helped board rescue craft from the pier, The Battle of Dunkirk during World War II, (which took place approx, 25th May - 3rd June 1940 was one of trying to extricate the British Expeditionary Force and other Allied troops from a hopeless situation, when they had been "squeezed" into a small area around Dunkirk with no hope of escape, by the vastly superior German mechanized forces, The call was made for every ship and boat to leave from Britain to save as many soldiers as possible, and despite the British leaving behind most of it's equipment, over 338, 000 Allied troops were brought back to England (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
British troops being helped board rescue craft from the pier, The Battle of Dunkirk during World War II, (which took place approx, 25th May - 3rd June 1940 was one of trying to extricate the British Expeditionary Force and other Allied troops from a hopeless situation, when they had been "squeezed" into a small area around Dunkirk with no hope of escape, by the vastly superior German mechanized forces, The call was made for every ship and boat to leave from Britain to save as many soldiers as possible, and despite the British leaving behind most of it's equipment, over 338, 000 Allied troops were brought back to England (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Dunkirk Evacuation
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Credit:
Popperfoto / Contributor
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78945504
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Popperfoto
Date created:
May 01, 1940
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Object name:
PPP30159162