Dunkirk
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Dunkirk is a major port city in the department of Nord, and the region of Hauts-de-France, northern France. It lies on the North Sea, 10 kilometres from the Belgian border. It has the third-largest Fr
The Hôtel de Ville and port
Saint Eloi Church
The Port of Dunkirk by Eugène Isabey, 1831
The Bombardment of Dunkirk by a combined Anglo-Dutch fleet, 1695
Battle of Dunkirk
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The Battle of Dunkirk was fought around the French port of Dunkirk during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany. As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front
Dunkirk
…Leopold III's surrender on 27 May, which was postponed until 28 May. The gap left by the Belgian Army stretched from Ypres to Dixmude. Nevertheless, a collapse was prevented, making it possible to launch an evacuation by sea, across the English Channel, codenamed Operation Dynamo. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill…
"Soldiers from the British Expeditionary Force fire at low flying German aircraft during the Dunkirk evacuation" – Soldiers were strafed and bombed by German aircraft
British prisoners of war with a Panzer I German tank
British anti-aircraft guns lie abandoned at Dunkirk in May 1940
Evacuated British troops at Dover, 29 May 1940