Friday, May 26, 2006

The Evacuation of Dunkirk



In 1940, the evacuation of Dunkirk began. Sailing vessels of every kind were pressed into service to ferry across the English Channel the British, French and Belgian soldiers trapped by advancing German forces in northern France. All 200,000 were safely across by June 2.

Remember? Walter Pidgeon left Greer Garson home during that part of the movie. All through school I was very good in history. But I was never better than I was with WWII history because I could picture all the movies. For me, all history revolves around John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor......

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