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Thank you for that...what a fiasco and yet it could have been much, much worse in the end. My information has it that:
"There then followed an evacuation from the Channel Islands, which was concluded by 28 June. St. Malo was also evacuated on 16/17 June after a call to Channel Islanders to provide craft to evacuate troops from the port, with the blowing-up of the dock gates", so it may have been that there were trapped troops after the ship sailed for Southampton. Further: "There were, as can be imagined, other, much less publicised mass evacuation of personnel: from Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux, amongst others and was in addition to the evacuation by civilians back to the U.S. and the U.K. from France, Spain and Portugal. This was undertaken in the less well-known Operation Aerial by fleets of small craft, many of whom were Dunkirk veterans".
I have information from this forum that about 50 DND-pattern trucks were left behind, and I have assumed that they were F.15s although after reviewing in detail today all my evidence I have to say that there could have been a mixture of F.15 and C.15 trucks. If anyone knows otherwise, please advise as I could do with this information for my thesis.
I am tempted to have a go at a book on the Canadian involvement in France in 1940, because the contribution should be recognised I feel.
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