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The evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940 was an organised, partial, nautical evacuation of Crown dependencies in the Channel Islands, primarily from Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney to Great Britain during World War II. The evacuation occurred in phases, starting with school aged children, their teachers, and mother volunteers.
Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands: German Occupation, 1940–45. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 147250920X; Cruickshank, Charles G. (1975), The German Occupation of the Channel Islands, The Guernsey Press, ISBN 0-902550-02-0; Dunford-Slater, John (1953). Commando: Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in World War Two. Reprinted 2002 ...
A number of events greatly affected the whole civilian population in the Channel Islands: Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940. 28 June 1940 bombing of islands by the Luftwaffe; July 1940 German troops arrive and occupation starts. Winter 1941-42 when the islands were inundated with soldiers and construction workers
The Channel Islands, comprising the Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey, which also comprised Alderney and Sark, fell under German control on 30 June 1940.. Prior to this, the lightning Blitzkrieg resulting in the fall of France gave the British government and the island governments just enough time to evacuate those who were willing to leave the islands immediately.
Channel Islands Liberated- the End of German Occupation, Channel Islands, 1945 D24595. Receiving a message from the Germans agreeing to a meeting at midnight on 8–9 May, the ships returned to the same south west coast location off Guernsey and a German minesweeper M4613 came out to meet HMS Bulldog. The German second in command, Generalmajor ...
From 23 May 1940 forward, Prinses Astrid sailed for the British Ministry of War Transport and she was used for the evacuation of 1,556 English soldiers from France in Operation Aerial from 12 June to 15 June 1940 following Belgium's surrender. She was also used for the evacuation of the Channel Islands Jersey and Guernsey between 20 June and 22 ...
Gardi Sugdub is one of about 50 populated islands in the archipelago of the Guna Yala territory. It is only about 400 yards (366 meters) long and 150 yards (137 meters) wide. From above, it’s ...
May–June 1940 – Operation Dynamo was implemented during the Battle of France, with around 439,000 British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk, France to the United Kingdom. [2] 20–23 June 1940 – 24,600 people, a third of the population, are evacuated from the Channel Islands to Great Britain ahead of the German invasion.