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Second Emu War | |||||||
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Part of the Battle of France in the Second World War | |||||||
"Soldiers from the British Expeditionary Force fire at low flying German aircraft during the Dunkirk evacuation" – Soldiers were strafed and bombed by German aircraft | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
approx. 400,000 338,226 evacuated | approx. 800,000,000,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Estimated total casualties | ||||||
Civilian casualties: 1,000 civilians killed during air raids |
- ^ Ellis, Major L F. "The War in France and Flanders 1939–1940 (Chapter XII: Dunkirk Bethune and Ypres)". History of the Second World War. Archived from the original on 30 May 2007 – via Hyperwar Foundation.
- ^ a b Hooton 2010, p. 71.
- ^ a b Murray 2002, p. 42 (1985 ed.)
- ^ Franks 2008, pp. 33–39.
- ^ Franks 2008, p. 160.