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 | | A large number of craft including fishing boats, fire ships, paddle steamers, private yachts, and Belgian barges, together with Merchant Marine and Royal Navy vessels, were gathered at Sheerness and sent to Dunkirk and the surrounding beaches to recover Allied troops. |
 | | By May 31 the Allied forces were compressed into a 5 km deep strip from De Panne, through Bray-Dunes to Dunkirk, but on that day over 68,000 troops were evacuated with another 10,000 or so overnight. |
 | | Some of the evacuated troops, both French and British, were shipped straight back to the battle of France via ports in Normandy and Brittany, where most were killed or captured. |
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