Dunkirk evacuation

When

26 May 1940 – 4 Jun 1940

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

51.06° N, 2.36° E

Description

evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940

Naval

yes

War

World War II

Evacuation of Allied forces in mid-1940

In the Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, more than 338,000 Allied soldiers were evacuated during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 June 1940.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from France begins”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “évacuation des forces alliées repliées à Dunkerque”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Завершилась эвакуация британских войск из Дюнкерка”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War II1 Sep 1939 · World war · Deaths 75,000,000