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Evacuation from Dunkirk, "Operation Dynamo" 26 May - 4 June 1940 ~ W.J.R.
Gardner, Sir Michael Boyce First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff. Frank
Cass Publishers; ISBN: 0714681504. Our Price: £18.50 |
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This
is the Naval Staff History of "Operation Dynamo", originally published
internally in 1949. British ships evacuated nearly 100,000 men of the BEF
from the beaches, and over 200,000 from harbours. Other nations' vessels
carried more than 30,000. Scores of ships were lost during the operation,
and many more were seriously damaged, but a very large proportion of the
British Army had been rescued in the teeth of continual air attack, from
an every-shrinking perimeter. The troops then had to be transported across
the Channel in the face of enemy aircraft, mines, torpedoes, and fire from
the shore, through waters unlit and strewn with wrecks. Although the campaign
was, in Churchill's words, "an unmitigated defeat", there is much to take
pride in, and many lessons to be learned from this operation. The appendices
include a list of ships which took part in "Operation Dynamo", and
numbers of troops transported.
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