it got completely wiped out by bombs
It happened at Dunkirk when the french were so badly injured they retreated.
The D-Day invasion was in Normandy, not at Dunkirk.
1940
No - the evacuation at Dunkirk happened late May/early June 1940. The US didn't become involved in World War II until December 1941
Dunkirk
Dunkirk .
Romania during World War I happened in 1916-08.
Dunkirk or if you are trying to find it on a map Dunquerque
Dunkirk
Yes, it was a major tactical mistake.
The scene of the evacuation of Allied (mainly British) forces from France during World War II in 1940 was the Channel Coast of France at a port called Dunkirk. Having been pushed back then surrounded by advancing German ground-troops, the majority of the British and French forces trapped at Dunkirk escaped to sea in a daring and largely successful series of day- and night-evacuations.