Refreshments for Dunkirk soldiers
Volunteers organising food and drink for the trainloads of soldiers returning home after being evacuated from Dunkirk. The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338, 000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops during the six-week Battle of France
Picture No
14152729
Media ID
48877553
Size
600px x 509px
(7.6MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Tatler', 12 June 1940, page 408
Date
1940





























