may 26, 1940 - Start of the Evacuation of Dunkirk
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On May 26th, 1940 British and French troops were pushed off to Northern French beaches. German Forces came from Belgium, and found a weak spot in the Maginot line located in the Ardennes forest. Eventually, the allied troops were surrounded there and it would have been a massacre to keep them stranded there.
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