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Dunkirk evacuation. The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation commenced after large ...
As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain from 26 May to 4 June 1940. After the Phoney War, the Battle of France began in earnest on 10 May 1940. To the east, the German Army Group B invaded the Netherlands and advanced ...
Operation Cycle is the name of the evacuation of Allied troops from Le Havre, in the Pays de Caux of Upper Normandy from 10 to 13 June 1940, towards the end of the Battle of France, during the Second World War. The operation was preceded by the better known rescue of 338,226 British and French soldiers from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo (26 May ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:45, 27 March 2013: 800 × 604 (75 KB): Fæ {{User:{{subst:User:Fae/Fae}}/IWM |description = {{en|''The British Army in the UK- Evacuation From Dunkirk, May-june 1940''<br/> Exhausted British troops rest on the quayside at Dover, 31 May 1940.}} |author = Puttnam (Mr) and Malindine (Mr), War Offi...
The photos, showing the memorial intact, were then published in German newspapers to refute stories in the Canadian media claiming that the Germans had bombed it. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] War Secretary Anthony Eden gave a radio address on the Dunkirk evacuation reporting that four-fifths of the British Expeditionary Force had been saved.
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 ...
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.
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