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1940: Dunkirk rescue is over - Churchill defiant. The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, has described the "miracle of deliverance" from Dunkirk and warned of an impending invasion. His...
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Over 338,000 allied soldiers were rescued from Dunkirk in the face of overwhelming odds. Discover what made the evacuations from Dunkirk so successful, how the British evacuation was carried out and why Winston Churchill regarded the operation as a 'miracle of deliverance'. View video transcript.
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
- 26 May to 4 June 1940
- Allied retreatEvacuation of 338,226 soldiers
The allied evacuations from Dunkirk in 1940 are often described as a miracle. After Germany's blitzkrieg swept through France and the Low Countries expectations for Operation Dynamo were dismally low, and yet over 338,000 allied soldiers were saved. So how did they do it?
Jul 22, 2024 · With Dunkirk, the disastrous defense of the Low Countries ended in a brief flash of glory for the Allies. Yet the brilliance of the evacuation could not hide the fact that the British had suffered a terrible defeat and that Britain itself was in dire peril.
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May 29, 2020 · He acknowledged that the BEF had courted disaster before depicting its escape as “a miracle of deliverance”. That the British public regards it as a triumph owes much to the work of British...
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Jul 21, 2017 · Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister during World War II, called it a "miracle of deliverance" in his famed We Shall Fight on the Beaches speech in 1940. He was praising the remarkable...
