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Article: German Army falls at El Alamein.(Heritage)
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- Spokesman Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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By the middle of August, 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill confronted the dire realization that the future of England and the Commonwealth was in peril. Between May and June the British, using every vessel they could commandeer, evacuated 338,000 members of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, France. Adolf Hitler's Blitzkrieg had first struck north occupying Denmark and crushing Norway and then had swept through the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
The German army then cut through France pushing the French and English forces westward toward the Atlantic. After France's capitulation, June 22, 1940, Hitler took aim at Britain and began an ...
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