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Directed by Leslie Norman. With John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Robert Urquhart, Ray Jackson. A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to. The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of. Title: WWII: Dunkirk Evacuation. Subject: Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo. Source: BBC Archive. History. Dunkirk was first mentioned in 1067 as Dunkerk (Dutch: Church of the Dunes). In World War II, heavy fighting took place around Dunkirk during the German. The evacuation of Dunkirk, codenamed Operation Dynamo, took place between 26 May and 4 June 1940. A flotilla of 900 naval and civilian craft was sent across the. Battle of Dunkirk; Part of the Battle of France in the Second World War: A British soldier on Dunkirk's beaches fires at strafing German aircraft. [2] (1940) in World War II, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) to England. Dunkirk and the Second World War. On 12th May, 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of France. The German Army employed 136 divisions and 2,500 tanks in its. Theatre: France; Dates: 26 May to 4 June 1940; Location: Dunkirk; Outcome: Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of around 350,000 British, French and Belgian. An eyewitness account of the evacuation of Dunkirk. Yet through all the noise I will always remember the voices of the young subalterns as they sent their men.