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| Picture No | 12914756 |
| Date | 1940 |
| Description | British artillery covering the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2 |
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British artillery (25-pounders) firing over open sights, while French and British infantry use their machine guns, to cover the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France. Seen here stopping a German tank rush on the Dunkirk-Cassel road near Wormhoudt. A French counter-attack is developing in the middle distance, and a number of German tanks have been knocked out by direct hits.
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| Source | Reproduction of a drawing by Bryan de Grineau in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 8 June 1940, pp778-9 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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