Many french and british soldiers were stuck on the shores of Dunkirk with the enemy in front and the English Channel behind. And loads of boats, fishing, yahts,luxury, every type of boat appeared to resure the stranded men.
The large naval vessels could not get inshore close enough to pick up the men on the beaches, so smaller boats motor launches etc with a shallow draught came in to pick up the men,then sail out to the naval ships and transfer them ,then return for another load thereby shuttleing back and forth to the beach for about a week under constant attack from aircraft and fire from the land . Churchill insisted that equal numbers of Frenchmen and British were brought back ,but in the confusion, who was counting, they just got men aboard whoever they were.300,000 were saved,but all their equipment etc was left behind tgive space to men.
The nation of France capitulates after the Dunkirk evacuation of French and British forces .
The evacuation of nearly 340000 Allied troops from the beaches at Dunkirk took place between 26th May 1940 and 4th June 1940.
Operation Dynamo - the evacuation of 338,000 Allied troops from the French port of Dunkirk - took place between 27 May and 3 June 1940.
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.
at this moment i am watching UK tv history channels Dunkirk docudrama and his name was mentioned in the third part of the series
they were taken in may different places mainly in the countrysides and some villages a popular place where it was taken place was dunkirk.
The Dunkirk evacuation, was codenamed Operation Dynamo by the British.
The nation of France capitulates after the Dunkirk evacuation of French and British forces .
Dunkirk
Codenamed Operation Dynamo by the British, the Dunkirk evacuation took place between May 26 and June 4, 1940,
On the beaches of Dunkirk.
After the Dunkirk evacuation , France capitulates .
The evacuation from Dunkirk
The evacuation of nearly 340000 Allied troops from the beaches at Dunkirk took place between 26th May 1940 and 4th June 1940.
Dunkirk, the evacuation of the British from capture by the Germans in WW2.
Between 27 May and 4 June 1940, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was forced to retreat to Dunkirk by German forces. The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, was the evacuation back to Britain from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France,
France capitulates after the Dunkirk evacuation .