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Some desperate escape on lifeboat from the beach of Dunkerque
(Mondadori Editore)
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Ended the ships, the loading was also done swimming (Farabola)
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A photo of French general Gamelin (on the left) and British
general Gort
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Men's overcrowding on the transport ships was at the limit
of the patience. Only miraculously the sinkings due to too load were rather rare.
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Some allied soldiers look for shelter on the wing of a
destroyed German bomber. The effectiveness of the Luftwaffe was very inferior
to the fame, which it has gained in the first months of war (Mondadori).
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The desolating show of a practically destroyed road of
Dunkerque. The land and air bombardment, although less effective than the expectation
against the troops in retreat, it was devastating against the fixed structures.
(Corbis.com)
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An example of the boats that composed the “Mosquito-Fleet”
(Corbis.com))
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French soldiers embarked during the last tragic days in
Dunkirk (Corbis.com)
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The queen of Great Britain in August 1940 visit a soldier
wounded in Dunkerque. The great escape from the French city will be seen how a
victory rather than a defeat, giving new courage to the English population in
sight of the terrible tests to which it would have been submitted during the Battle
of England. (Corbis.com)
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