Dead British soldiers in Calais, France, at 1330 hours on 27 May 1940; note Bedford MW truck

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Caption     Dead British soldiers in Calais, France, at 1330 hours on 27 May 1940; note Bedford MW truck ww2dbase
Date 27 May 1940
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseGerman Federal Archives
Identification Code   Bild 146-1971-042-18
 
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Licensing  Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany License (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE).

See Bild 146-1971-042-18 on Wikimedia Commons

According to the German Federal Archive (Bundesarchiv), as of 21 Jul 2010, photographs can be reproduced with if these preconditions are met:
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You also can use fotos from the Federal Archives for free on Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv According to the German Federal Archive (Bundesarchiv), as of 19 Jul 2023, "You also can use fotos from the Federal Archives on Wikimedia Common free of charge".

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Added By C. Peter Chen
Photo Size 800 x 564 pixels



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