The
order to 'Evacuate forthwith,' was issued at 11.07am on Thursday, 31 August
193. Following this, in the first few days of September, 3,000,000 people were
evacuated, including 1.9 million children.
Jim Woods
remembers the times, stating " I was eventually evacuated. I remember going to
the station and there were literally hundreds of children lined up waiting to
go. Everyone had a cardboard box with their gas masks in and a label tied to
their coats to identify them if they got lost."
The following clip from The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
shows what the evacuation, called "Operation Pied Piper," looked like.
Below is a few pictures of what the event actually looked like.
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