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===Second BEF evacuation===
{{Further|Operation Cycle|Operation Aerial}}
The evacuation of the second BEF took place during [[Operation Aerial]] between 15 and 25 June. The ''Luftwaffe'', with complete domination of the French skies, was determined to prevent more Allied evacuations after the Dunkirk debacle. {{lang|de|[[1st Air Corps (Germany)|Fliegerkorps I]]}} was assigned to the Normandy and [[Brittany]] sectors.  On 9 and 10 June, the port of Cherbourg was subject to 15 [[tonnes]] of German bombs, while [[Le Havre]] received 10 [[Bombing of France during World War II|bombing attacks]] that sank 2,949 [[Gross register tonnage|GRT]] of escaping Allied shipping. On 17 June, [[Junkers Ju 88]]s (mainly from {{lang|de|Kampfgeschwader}} 30) sank a "10,000&nbsp;tonne ship" which was the 16,243 GRT liner {{RMS|Lancastria||6}} off St Nazaire, killing some 4,000 Allied personnel (nearly doubling the British killed in the Battle of France), yet the {{lang|de|Luftwaffe}} failed to prevent the evacuation of some 190,000–200,000 Allied personnel.{{sfn|Hooton|2008|p=88}}