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  2. Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II

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    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.

  3. Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940

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    The evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940 was an organised, partial, nautical evacuation of Crown dependencies in the Channel Islands, primarily from Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney to Great Britain during World War II. The evacuation occurred in phases, starting with school aged children, their teachers, and mother volunteers.

  4. Dunkirk evacuation - Wikipedia

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    The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.

  5. Children's Overseas Reception Board - Wikipedia

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    Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II; National Museums Liverpool [20] The National Archives: Evacuation to Canada [21] BBC MEMORIES OF A C.O.R.B. (CHILDREN'S OVERSEAS RECEPTION BOARD) EVACUEE 1940 - 1944: [22] IWM THE STORY OF CHILD EVACUEE BERYL MYATT AND THE SINKING OF THE SS CITY OF BENARES: [23] Keep Calm and Carry On?:

  6. Operation Aerial - Wikipedia

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    The evacuation at St Jean de Luz ended officially at 2:00 p.m. on 25 June, just after the deadline set by the terms of the armistice, with the sailing of the cargo ships SS Baron Kinnaird, SS Baron Nairn and SS Kelso, loaded with troops and civilians; about 19,000 people were lifted from Bayonne and St Jean de Luz, most being Polish troops.

  7. List of World War II evacuations - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. World War II evacuation and expulsion - Wikipedia

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    Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 which marked the beginning of World War II, the campaign of ethnic "cleansing" became the goal of military operations for the first time since the end of World War I. After the end of the war, between 13.5 and 16.5 million German-speakers lost their homes in formerly German lands and all over ...

  9. List of mass evacuations - Wikipedia

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    Evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita in Texas, United States. This list of mass evacuations includes emergency evacuations of a large number of people in a short period of time. An emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event whether from natural or man made causes, or as the result of war