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Originally Posted by tcolvin
In the film 'Atonement', a Lancaster flies overhead in 1935, while an infantry soldier kicks off his army boots and arrives in Dunkirk without his rifle. None of these could happen. Tony
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It's literature! Don't you think the Lancaster represented a premonition of war (and, as such, a recognisable symbol for UK audiences, which I doubt that a Whitley would have been)?
With 300,000+ on the beaches, I suspect that soldiers arrived there in all kinds of states of dress and equipment. Who can say for sure?
More to the point is a character's reference to the loss of the
Lancastria which didn't happen at Dunkirk and not until after that operation had closed.
What the hell, it was a really good film.