Almost Half a Million Troops Were Trapped on Dunkirk Beaches ? WWII Battles in Color | Smithsonian
The sheer improbability of the Dunkirk evacuation is laid bare by the expectations of the British Admiralty: secretly, they feared they would only be able to rescue 40,000 troops–10% of the total number trapped there. In the sky, German dive bombers, known as Stukas, rained hell on the waiting men.
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