A dog retreating from France
With the British Expeditionary Force in 1940.
With the British Expeditionary Force in 1940. (I don’t know whether from Dunkirk or from the subsequent evacuation from further west.)
He looks properly upset.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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