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Gort immediately saw that evacuation across the Channel was the best course of action, and began planning a withdrawal to Dunkirk, the closest location with good port facilities. [28] Surrounded by marshes, Dunkirk boasted old fortifications and the longest sand beach in Europe, where large groups could assemble. [29]
The docks at Dunkirk were too badly damaged to be used, but the east and west moles (sea walls protecting the harbour entrance) were intact. Captain William Tennant—in charge of the evacuation—decided to use the beaches and the east mole to land the ships. This highly successful idea hugely increased the number of troops that could be ...
The Soviet evacuation of Tallinn, also called Juminda mine battle, Tallinn disaster or Russian Dunkirk, was a Soviet operation to evacuate the 190 ships of the Baltic Fleet, units of the Red Army, and Soviet civilians from the fleet's encircled main base of Tallinn in Soviet-occupied Estonia during August 1941. [1]
Operation Dynamo, the evacuation at Dunkirk from 26 May to 3 June, had rescued much of the fighting element of the BEF. Some units from the 1st Armoured Division , the Beauman Division and more than 150,000 support and line-of-communication troops, had been cut off in the south by the German dash to the sea. [ 5 ]
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The locations of three boats used in the Dunkirk evacuation in the Second World War have been uncovered for the first time by a detailed survey of 30 shipwrecks off the French coast.
The following ships are among the more notable vessels involved in the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk, France during Operation Dynamo between 26 May and 4 June 1940. MS Batory; SS Ben-my-Chree; SS Fenella; TS King George V; SS King Orry; RMS Lady of Mann; SS Levenwood; TSS Manxman; SS Mona's Isle; SS Mona's Queen
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