Dunkirk Research Paper
A ‘’miracle’ ’Dunkirk ,the troops trapped on Dunkirk and the evacuation associated with them, was called by Winston Churchill .In the spring of 1940 the Wehrmacht swept through western Europe ,using Blitzkrieg ,both the French and British armies could the onslaught .for western Europeans ,World war two was about to start .The ‘’phoney War’’ had surely come to an end. The advancing German army trapped the British and the French armies on the beaches on Dunkirk. Over 300,000 men were trapped here and they were a sitting target for the Germans .Admiral Ramsey formulated operation dynamo to get off of the beaches as many men as was possible. The British troops ,led by lord John, were professional soldiers from the British investigation force ;trained men that we could not afford to lose. From May 26th 1940,small ships transferred soldiers to larger one which then brought them back to Britain southern port.
The Dunkirk beach was on a shallow slope so no large boat could get near the actual beaches where the men were. So Therefore, smaller boats were needed to take men on board who would then be transferred to a much bigger boat based further off shore. No less than Eight hundred of these legendary, referred to as ‘’little ships’’ were used. It was thought that the mission seemed highly …show more content…
Holland and Poland had already fallen to the Germans and Belgium was soon to follow. French and British forces began assembling at the French port city of Dunkirk with British soil sitting some ways across the Channel. Sensing total destruction of the forces, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a fleet of civilian ships to help transport troops to awaiting transports from the port. The struggle would become one of epic proportion as thousands of souls were saved in the bold rescue
The Dunkirk beach was on a shallow slope so no large boat could get near the actual beaches where the men were. So Therefore, smaller boats were needed to take men on board who would then be transferred to a much bigger boat based further off shore. No less than Eight hundred of these legendary, referred to as ‘’little ships’’ were used. It was thought that the mission seemed highly …show more content…
Holland and Poland had already fallen to the Germans and Belgium was soon to follow. French and British forces began assembling at the French port city of Dunkirk with British soil sitting some ways across the Channel. Sensing total destruction of the forces, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a fleet of civilian ships to help transport troops to awaiting transports from the port. The struggle would become one of epic proportion as thousands of souls were saved in the bold rescue