It is worth remembering that on 6th June 1940 the main evacuation from Dunkirk of the BEF had finished two days earlier, with the bulk of their equipment being left on the beaches behind them. On D-Day, 6th June 1944, only 4 years later, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy. (American forces – 73,000.) on 6th June 1940 Ninety-five per cent of these soldiers had been civilians with no military training, experience or even any great desire to be soldiers.
Boadicea's Chariot 