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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 Battle of Dunkirk (French: Bataille de Dunkerque) was fought around the French port of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany. 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 ...
Operation Dynamo, Dunkirk 1940, France and the Low Countries, Second World War; Associated themes British Army 1939-1945, France and the Low Countries 1939-1940; Associated keywords Aid, Evacuation, Militarism, Rescue; Category
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.
World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians to Germany as forced labour; Forced migration of Jews to Nazi concentration camps in the General Government. Expulsion of Germans after World War II from areas occupied by the Red Army; Evacuation of ...
Dunkirk evacuation (2 C, 13 P) K. Kindertransport (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Evacuations during World War II" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of ...
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...
Dunkirk evacuation (2 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Dunkirk in World War II" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.