WORLD WAR ll ~ BRITISH COASTAL FORCES WAITING FOR GERMAN INVASION - 1940

Description

Scarce dramatic original press photograph of British Royal Artillery forces waiting inside a command post for word of a German invasion.
Reeling under combined assault from German land and air forces, in late May and early June 1940 the British Army evacuated France. As many as 338,000 British and allied troops got off the beach at Dunkirk.
But they left behind 2,300 artillery pieces, 500 anti-tank guns, 600 tanks and 64,000 other vehicles — around half of the British Army’s entire inventory of heavy weaponry.
For the next year, the army was all but powerless to defend the British Isles. At least that’s what the German high command believed as they promptly laid plans to invade. They called the operation Operation Sea lion.
But brave Royal Air Force pilots exacted such a toll on German planes during the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940 — destroying some 2,000 Luftwaffe aircraft and killing 2,600 aircrew against the loss of 1,600 British planes and roughly the same number of aircrew — that Germany cancelled the invasion.
Photograph measures 8 x 10 inches and is in excellent condition with no bends, tears, or creases and is very sharp and has strong tones with good contrast and clarity.
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