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Flanders Withdrawal Enables Dunkirk Evacuation

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1940

John GortMay 1940

Flanders · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The BEF withdrawal from positions in Flanders helps concentrate British forces for evacuation from Dunkirk.

Names involved

John Gort

Provenance

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