Damit ist die größte Schlacht der Weltgeschichte beendet."
40,000 French and English troops are all that remains of the formerly great armies.
On the 24th of May it will be the 80th anniversary of the King of England calling the nation to pray.
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…off by the Germans, were evacuated from Dunkirk to England by naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats.
The shortest was Route Z, a distance of 39 nautical miles (72 km), but it entailed hugging the French coast and thus ships using it were subject to bombardment from on-shore batteries, particularly in daylight hours.You knew this was the chance to get home and you kept praying, please God, let us go, get us out, get us out of this mess back to England.
In addition, 19 destroyers were damaged.The RAF lost 145 aircraft, of which at least 42 were For every seven soldiers who escaped through Dunkirk, one man was left behind as a Those of the BEF who died or were captured and have no known grave are commemorated on the Does not include ships' lifeboats and some unrecorded small privately owned craft.Original German: "Dünkirchen ist gefallen!
Reynaud responded by recalling the retired 73-year-old general Maxime Weygand to take Gamelin’s place as commander in chief.
British and other Allied troops waiting to be evacuated from the beach at Dunkirk, France, 1940.The British Expeditionary Force being surrounded by invading Germans at Dunkirk and evacuated from France by a motley rescue fleet of military ships and private boats; from Members of the British 51st Highland Division at Veules-les-Roses, France, after the surrender of French and British forces in the area, June 1940.This article was most recently revised and updated by
We have created a video that captures the story of the miracles that happened at Dunkirk.
It can only be imagined what would have happened if this miracle had never occured and how different history would have been if it had failed and the soldiers evacuated had become prisoners of war instead. Our prayer is that God would be glorified in the sharing of this story.
Dunkirk (UK: / d ʌ n ˈ k ɜːr k /, US: / ˈ d ʌ n k ɜːr k /; French: Dunkerque [dœ̃kɛʁk] (); French Flemish: Duunkerke; Dutch: Duinkerke(n) [ˈdœynkɛrkə(n)] ()) is a commune in Nord, a French department in northern France.It is the northernmost city in France, lying 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the Belgian border.
The town was liberated by the U.S. Army in May 1945, but more than three-quarters of its houses were destroyed in the fighting.…
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On 5 June 1940, Hitler stated "Dunkirk has fallen! German Generals Kleist and Nevertheless, the British were undaunted by their departure from the Continent, and they began planning for their return almost immediately.
Immeasurable quantities of materiel have been captured.
The greatest battle in the history of the world has come to an end.
However, Miracle at Dunkerque represents a significant enhancement and expansion of that original design concept.
Many troops were able to embark from the harbour's protective Without informing the French, the British began planning on 20 May for Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the BEF.On 22 May, Churchill ordered the BEF to attack southward in coordination with the French First Army under General The halt order has been the subject of much discussion by historians.The retreat was undertaken amid chaotic conditions, with abandoned vehicles blocking the roads and a flood of refugees heading in the opposite direction.On 27 May, the first full day of the evacuation, one Altogether, over 3,500 sorties were flown in support of Operation Dynamo.On 30 May, Churchill received word that all British divisions were now behind the defensive lines, along with more than half of the French First Army.Of the total 338,226 soldiers, several hundred were unarmed Indian The next day, an additional 53,823 men were embarked,Three routes were allocated to the evacuating vessels.
Say “Dunkirk” * to anyone with a modest knowledge of Britain’s recent history and probably the least they will do is to nod sagely; Dunkirk, ‘the miracle of Dunkirk’ or the ‘Dunkirk spirit’, is part of modern British mythology.
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Then somebody said, there's Dover, that was when we saw the A wide variety of small vessels from all over the south of England were pressed into service to aid in the Dunkirk evacuation.
On May 15 Gamelin told French Premier Paul Reynaud that Paris might fall within two days’ time.