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The Dunkirk evacuation, ... Troops landed from Dunkirk 27 May – 4 June 1940 [69] Date Beaches Harbour Total 27 May — 7,669 7,669 28 May 5,930 11,874 17,804
Date: 15 September 1944 – 9 May 1945 ... (also known as the Second Battle of Dunkirk) ... to allow the evacuation of 17,500 French civilians and Allied and German ...
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 Battle of Dunkirk ended with the overnight evacuation of 26,175 French troops. At 10:20 a.m. the Germans occupied the city and captured the 30–40,000 French troops who were left. At 10:20 a.m. the Germans occupied the city and captured the 30–40,000 French troops who were left.
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.
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 ]
The Dunkirk Jack, flown only by civilian ships that participated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 850 private boats [1] that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helping to rescue more than 336,000 British, French, and other Allied soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at ...
Poor weather over Dunkirk allowed the British to conduct the day's evacuations with reduced fear of German air attacks. This day was the high point of the evacuation, with a total of 68,014 rescued. [1] French destroyer Siroco was sunk in the North Sea by German S-boats and aircraft. The German submarine U-13 was depth charged and sunk in the ...