Troops of the British Expeditionary Force landed from a destroyer at a British Port on June 1, 1940 after being evacuated following heroic fighting from Flanders. (Photo by AP Photo)





Hundreds of men of the British Expeditionary Force withdrawn from Dunkirk and Northern France are arriving back in England in a continuous stream. A destroyer’s deck loaded with men of the B.E.F ,on May 31, 1940, somewhere in England. (Photo by AP Photo)





German soldier, prisoner of French, is guarded by French sailors who defended Dunkirk on June 12, 1940. (Photo by AP Photo)





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. (Photo by AP Photo)





Men of the B.E.F. safely home after their gallant fight in Flanders seen on transport ships at the Quayside on June 6, 1940. Many sorts and sizes of vessels taking part in the grand evacuation from Dunkirk. (Photo by AP Photo)





A group of British soldiers arrive in England after the evacuation of Flanders, France, on June 6, 1940 in World War II. The British soldier at left wears his pajamas instead of his uniform and a blanket around his shoulders for warmth and smokes a pipe. In Operation Dynamo, over three-hundred thousand French, British and Belgian troops escaped the German invasion from the beaches near Dunkirk, France. (Photo by AP Photo)





Troops of the British Expeditionary Force landing at an English port on May 31, 1940. (Photo by AP Photo)





A British Spitfire fighter lays with its cockpit blasted out, after it crashed to the beach at Dunkirk, France on June 6, 1940, the last stand port of the Allied forces which fled from Flanders. Smoke from burning Dunkirk may be seen in the background. (Photo by AP Photo)





British troops arriving in England on June 6, 1940 after fleeing Flanders received all kinds of fruit and food from women who passed it out to them as they halted in railroad stations. A soldier holds aloft a banana he received from the woman. (Photo by AP Photo)





Smoke and debris in a street of Dunkirk, France, showing the effects of bombardment, June 1940. (Photo by AP Photo)





A seething, but surprisingly orderly mass of steel hats, as more and still more thousands more of the B.E.F. return to England, June 1, 1940. (Photo by AP Photo)





A sailor assisting a wounded soldier, followed by French Troops on return to England, on June 1, 1940. (Photo by AP Photo)





Captured British soldiers are led away by German troops at Dunkirk, France, in June 1940. (Photo by AP Photo)





Men of the British Expeditionary Force arriving at a British port on June 6, 1940 after their escape from the German sweep through Flanders. One soldier assists a wounded comrade who walks with the aid of a stick. (Photo by AP Photo)