Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist21 May 1940
Races to the coast of the English Channel at Abbeville isolating the British Expeditionary Force, Belgian Army, and the French Army
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Races to the coast of the English Channel at Abbeville isolating the British Expeditionary Force, Belgian Army, and the French Army
Allied craft are hit but 47,300 of the BEF are evacuated
Operation Yellow is launched to lure the BEF out of France
Advises Hitler to allow the BEF time to gather for an evacuation at Dunkirk
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