Historic images from the World War II Dunkirk rescue mission

Two of the many small boats which helped to bring the Allied troops in the emergency evacuation across the English Channel from Dunkirk, France, are shown on June 4, 1940 in World War II. Private crafts of all sizes, trawlers, paddle steamers, yachts and motor boats were used to evacuate more than 300,000 Allied troops who were cutoff from retreat on land by the Nazi invasion to the French Channel ports.

AP

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