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Pictured: "Most of the poor devils, in addition to being burnt to hell, had been in the water and were almost dead from exposure and exhaustion.
A harrowing letter describing how soldiers 'burnt to hell' during the Dunkirk evacuation has come to light 81 years later.
Lieutenant Walter Bonham commanded a small vessel which ferried soldiers back to Britain while being dive-bombed by the Germans in May 1940.
He recounts pulling dozens of men 'almost dead from exposure and exhaustion' aboard who had jumped into the sea from a nearby burning ship.
Pic: Bonhams/BNPS
Pictured: "Most of the poor devils, in addition to being burnt to hell, had been in the water and were almost dead from exposure and exhaustion.
A harrowing letter describing how soldiers 'burnt to hell' during the Dunkirk evacuation has come to light 81 years later.
Lieutenant Walter Bonham commanded a small vessel which ferried soldiers back to Britain while being dive-bombed by the Germans in May 1940.
He recounts pulling dozens of men 'almost dead from exposure and exhaustion' aboard who had jumped into the sea from a nearby burning ship.
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