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Evacuation Quotes
On leaving home under threat, and finding a way back.
These quotes hold real wartime memory - England's civilian evacuations during the bombings that followed the 1939 invasion of Poland, and a family's own postwar return from the countryside to a destroyed home near Cologne in 1945.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
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The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.
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