The Evacuation of British & subsequently French & Belgian soldiers from the beaches at Dunkirk in June 1940. 338 000 were returned to Britain.
Operation Dynamo, or the Miracle of Dunkirk occurred between May and June 1940
It certainly was. Around 10 times as many people were rescued as was originally hoped for.
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Operation Dynamo, carried out by volunteers at Dunkirk in 1940, rescued 350,000 British and French soldiers and transported them to England.
The success of Operation Dynamo relied upon the French First Army's successful Seige of Lille.See the related Wikipedia link for more information:
The Dunkirk evacuation, was codenamed Operation Dynamo by the British.
Operation Dynamo (May 24 to June 4, 1940)Operation Dynamo, also informally referred to as the Miracle at Dunkirk.
Operation Dynamo.
Operation Dynamo.
It began in may 1940
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The Dunkirk evacuation was code-named "Operation Dynamo" .
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Operation Dynamo
Operation Dynamo was the evacuation of around 338,000 allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in Northern France between 28 May and 4 June 1940. They managed to escape before they were about to be surrounded by the advancing German Army.