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An evacuation is the process of moving people away from where they are in danger to a safer place. The Dunkirk evacuation moved about 340,000 British, French, and Belgian (Allied) soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France, across the English Channel to England. It began on May 26, 1940, and ended nine days later, on June 4.
When it ended on June 4, about 198,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian troops had been saved. The operation’s success was due to fighter cover by the RAF and (unintentionally) to Adolf Hitler ’s order of May 24 halting the advance of German armored forces into Dunkirk. France, country of northwestern Europe.
May 26, 2020 · By 26 May, both Calais and Boulogne had fallen to the Germans, leaving the small port and seaside resort town of Dunkirk as the only location from which to evacuate the BEF. One of the greatest myths of the Second World War was that the RAF did not do enough to protect British soldiers trapped in the Dunkirk salient or to support the Royal Navy ...
A map of the evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII
Operation Dynamo aimed at evacuating the Allied Soldiers from the ‘hell of Dunkirk’ to Dover. Over 338 000 men reached England on more than 1000 ships. During this operation, over 200 ships and ‘Little Ships’ were sunk. At low tide, the beach reveals its secrets and you can see the shipwrecks from the Second World War.
Operation Dynamo: Things you need to know about the Dunkirk Evacuation. Early in the Second World War, in late May 1940, the Allied forces of British, French and Belgian troops were trapped by the invading German army on the coast of France and Belgium, in the area around Dunkirk. The desperate and near-miraculous rescue that followed ...
Here are seven photographs from the evacuation of Dunkirk. Photographs. 1. Waiting for rescue. Image: IWM (NYP 68075) British troops line up on the beach at Dunkirk to await evacuation. See object record. Photographs. 2.
