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Dunkirk evacuation Operation Dynamo

Dunkirk evacuation Operation Dynamo. Crandall Miller. Background. August 1939: Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression pact is signed September 1 1939: Germans launch Blitzkrieg against Poland Denmark, Norway the Netherlands Belgium and France soon feel after. Brief overview. Who was involved?. England

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Dunkirk evacuation Operation Dynamo

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  1. Dunkirk evacuationOperation Dynamo Crandall Miller

  2. Background • August 1939: Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression pact is signed • September 1 1939: Germans launch Blitzkrieg against Poland • Denmark, Norway the Netherlands Belgium and France soon feel after

  3. Brief overview Who was involved? • England • General Gort • Admiral Ramsey • France • General Weygand • General Blanchard • Germany • General Von Rundstedt • General Von Kleist • General Von Bock

  4. Troops • England/France • Approx. 400,000 • Germany • Approx. 800,000

  5. Casualties • England/France • 300 killed or wounded • 34,000 missing or captured • 6 destroyers • 200 smaller vessels • 106 Aircraft • Germany • 152,252 killed or wounded • 8467 missing • 240 aircraft

  6. Timeline overview May 27 to June 4 1940

  7. 26 May • Evacuation Starts • Mostly with Fast passenger ships manned by merchant navy crews

  8. 27 May • German troops begin bombarding Dunkirk with Artillary • British Expeditionary Force rearguard leave frontier defenses in the evening • 7,699 troops evacuated

  9. 28 May • Belgium Surendours leaving General Gorts northern flank exposed • Most of the British Expeditionary Force reaches Defended Peremeter • General Blanchard now discovers that General Gort plans to retreat across the english channel instead of staying to fight and goes into a blind rage. • 40 ships evacuate 17,000 men

  10. 29 May • French First Army reaches Dunkirk • German troops cut off allied troops fighting around Lille • French V corps is captured • End of Englands ground campaign • 3 times 47,000 troops evacuated • Several ships lost

  11. 30 May • British Admirality decides to withdraw all new destroyers • Rear Admiral Wake Walker arrives to take over at dunkirk • Admiral Ramsey Convinces Admirality to return 7 new Destroyers • 53,000 Troops Evacuated

  12. 31 May • General Gort was returned to Britain due to England's few of his Capture and is replaced with General Alexander • 68,000 men Evacuated • British forces abandon Easternmost beach

  13. 1 June • 4 destroyers sunk • 64,000 troops evacuated • Admiral Walkers Flagship was sunk as well

  14. 2 June • Estimations put 6,000 british troops and 65,000 french troops still in dunkirk • Last British rearguard is Evacuated at 5pm • 26,000 troops evacuated

  15. 3 June • 26,000 Troops Evacuated • ¾ were french troops • 40,000 french troops left in dunkirk

  16. 4 June • 26,000 french troops were evacuated • Germans advanced within 3 miles of dunkirk • No further chances for Evacuations • Operation Dynamo ends at 2:23pm

  17. Overall Losses • British Expeditionary Force: • 89,111 Killed • 2472 guns lost • 63,000 vehicles • 500,000 tons of ammunition • 106 aircraft • 40 to 80 thousand men captured • 243 ships sunk

  18. Winston Churchill “We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations”

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