.@POTUS: "We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history with more than 120,000 people evacuated to safety. That number is more than double what most experts thought was possible. No nation has ever done anything like it in all of history." pic.twitter.com/sv6NAw6eb6
— The Hill (@thehill) August 31, 2021
Apart from Dunkirk, there was also the Berlin airlift during the Soviet blockade, the evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11, the safe airlift evacuation of about 170,000 Indians from Kuwait during the 1990 Invasion of Kuwait to name but a few that were also pretty bloody impressive!
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