What is Dunkirk in World War 2?

Answer 1

Beginning of Summer 1940. It helped evacuate about a half a million allied soldiers who would otherwise have become POW's. These soldiers could subsequently contribute to the allied landing later in the war.
Although Dunkirk can only be seen as a defeat of the British & French in France in 1940 the fact that over 330, 000 returned to Britain in the litte ships was an amazing escape. They had to leave all their equipment behind, of course, but it was a morale boost to think these men were not captured en masse by the German attackers. Op Dynamo, while not a victory showed the Blitzkreig could be countered. It would be a long time before the Allies were able to reply, at least in France in a meaningful way, but I guess many who left Dunkirk would reurn 4 years later in Overlord (Normandy).

Answer 2

Yes. Over 200,000 allied troops were evacuated from Dunkirk as the German army advanced. Has the Germans caught them, the troops would have be massacred in what may have been a decisive victory for the Axis.

Answer 3

It was summer 1943. The German war machine appeared invincible. The Allied armies were retreating in disarray. Finally, the main British army, which had picked up a few odd French units, had two choices: it could either surrender, or it could attempt to flee to the French port of Dunkirk. Its general decided that he would try to escape, and his army raced to Dunkirk.

Once they were there, they sent out an SOS for help. Help came, and not just from Britain. The skies over Dunkirk were so cloudy that the German air force, the Luftwaffe, didn't bother trying to bomb the seemingly trapped Allied forces. They decided to wait for better weather. The weather on the ground, however, was perfect. The English Channel, which is notorious for bad weather, was unprecedentedly clear. This allowed a citizen relief effort to send anything that would float over to Dunkirk- from pleasure rafts to fishing boats. They carried away almost the entire British army, a definite miracle.

Answer 4

Dunkirk was a evacuation for the British Expedition Force from the Germans close to the beginning of World War 2