Dunkirk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dunkirk (French: , or ; Dutch: ; ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It lies 10 kilometres (6 miles) from the Belgian border. The popul...
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The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and a substantial number of French troops were trapped in a diminishing pocket of land centred on the port of Dunkirk. On 25 May Boulogne was captured and on the following day Calais fell.
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The Men of Valour at Dunkirk ... Our task is not only to win the battle - but to win the war. After this battle in France abates its force, there will come the battle for our Island -- for all that Britain is, and all the Britain means. That will be the struggle.
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Falling Back to Dunkirk, 7th MAC British Expeditionary Force (Part 3) ... From Holiday to Horror: Dunkirk, 1940 ... The War of Ernest H Foard MM, 1939 to 1945, Part 1...
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Our Government has never issued medals to the commemeration of Dunkirk. They say it was a defeat. The French Government thought otherwise and issued medals to their participants. ... The Admiralty opted for less efficient 1/2 inch and 2prd mountings, although the 20mm Oerlikon and 40mm Bofors were available before the war,
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DUNKIRK: RETREAT TO VICTORY by Julian Thompson (Sidgwick & Jackson, £20) ... If Hitler had ordered the tanks towards Dunkirk then, quite simply, Britain would have lost the war within days. At least that’s the view of Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, who wrote a recent brilliant essay on this theme in Lapham’s Quarterly.
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Meanwhile the Admiralty and everyone, literally, in the south of England who had a boat, including sailing dinghies, motorboats, destroyers, trawlers, ferries, were already sailing across the Channel to Dunkirk.
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Headline: Britain / World War II / Dunkirk Evacuation ... (At the Imperial War Museum: Kevin Dunne) The last reunion on the 60th anniversary of the 1940 evacuation from Dunkirk during World War II featured; war footage shown of the rescue of an entire army from the beaches.
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Headline: Britain / World War II / Dunkirk ... (London: Richard Roth) The commemoration of the evacuation of Dunkirk, which saved the British and French from disaster in World War II, featured; scenes shown of the reenactment of this "miracle of deliverance" in which a fleet of little boats carried out the rescue.
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