The fast-paced story plays out against the evacuation of Dunkirk and wartime Britain.

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The aircraft, which featured a gun turret, rather than forward-facing armaments, saw action in the the evacuation of Dunkirk and during the Battle of Britain.

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The cliffs were further embedded in the national psyche during World War II following the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk and Dame Vera Lynn's famous song, The White Cliffs of Dover.

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In 1940, in World War II, the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk was completed.

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In 1940, evacuation of the defeated Allied armies from Dunkirk began.

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We can only hope that, if American troops must run the gauntlet while abandoning Iraq in order to meet some politically and arbitrarily imposed deadline, they will be welcomed home in much the same way as were British forces who survived the evacuation known as the "miracle of Dunkirk" in 1940.

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