Conditions during the Allied evacuation from Dunkirk, which will go down in history as one of the great feats of withdrawal ever carried out by any army, in the face of almost insurmountable difficulties, are illustrated in these two pictures.
The upper picture shows soldiers wading out to the small boats which carried them to the transports, which in turn carried them to England. Below, troops photographed on the exposed beaches, where they were repeatedly machine-gunned and bombed, and had only the cover of the hollows in the sand which they could scoop out for themselves. These pictures were radioed from London to New York, thence sent by telephone to San Francisco, and from there put on the Clipper planes for the Far East.
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