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The BEF was the small, professional force sent across the Channel at the outbreak of the Second World War to help the French stop the German Blitzkrieg.

Although well trained, they were not equipped or ready for the modern combined arms tactics of the Germans, and with only the support of the French, they found themselves fighting a series of delaying actions and being evacuated from Dunkirk.