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Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) group bound for New Zealand, 1940. The Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) was a British government sponsored organisation. [1] The CORB evacuated 2,664 British children from England, so that they would escape the imminent threat of German invasion and the risk of enemy bombing in World War II.
World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians to Germany as forced labour; Forced migration of Jews to Nazi concentration camps in the General Government. Expulsion of Germans after World War II from areas occupied by the Red Army; Evacuation of ...
The UK Ministry of Health advertised the evacuation programme through posters, among other means. The poster depicted here was used in the London Underground.. The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to defend individuals, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.
Between the Lines of World War II: Twenty-One Remarkable People and Events. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4667-4. Jackson, Carlton (2008). Who Will Take Our Children?: The British Evacuation Program of World War II. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3785-6. Tildesley, Kate. Voices from the Battle of the Atlantic. The Second World War Experience Centre.
Westward Ho! is a 1940 British public information film about the evacuation of children during the Second World War, directed by Thorold Dickinson.At the time, evacuation was a controversial policy, and the film was produced with the aim of building support for it.
There was difficulty launching the lifeboats, and as a result, 805 people died out of the original complement of 1673. This led to evacuations of British children on passenger liners under the Children's Overseas Reception Board and the United States Committee for the Care of European Children to be protected by convoys. [citation needed]
The Capture of Attu: A World War II Battle as Told by the Men Who Fought There. Bison Books. ISBN 0-8032-9557-X. Wetterhahn, Ralph (2004). The Last Flight of Bomber 31: Harrowing Tales of American and Japanese Pilots Who Fought World War II's Arctic Air Campaign. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-7867-1360-7. Zaloga, Steven J. (2007). Japanese Tanks 1939 ...
The Aleutian Islands World War II National Monument is a U.S. national monument in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. It is located on four islands in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge . It was designated as part of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument by an executive order of George W. Bush on December 5, 2008, with ...