Battle of Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo: The Miracle of the Dunkirk Evacuation During World War 2
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2023
- Do you want to learn more about World War II, but don’t have time to read huge, long books? Then let The History Journals take you on an hourly history tour of the different facets of the war. In this edition, discover the true story of the Battle of Dunkirk and the heroic efforts of civilians who helped rescue Allied troops from the Nazis.
Mention the spirit of Dunkirk today and people will associate the phrase with that “never say die” mentality so closely associated with the British as a nation. However, few would be able to tell you more than the fact that Dunkirk had something to do with World War II, and that it’s very probably a place in France. This is of course correct on both counts, although metaphorically speaking, just the tip of the iceberg. The story of Dunkirk and the incredible bravery of servicemen and civilians alike is not only dramatically moving, but also positively inspirational and this journal has been created to take you back to 1940, on a journey of discovery to find true courage in the face of terrible adversity.
The “miracle” of Dunkirk, as Prime Minister Winston Churchill so eloquently described the great escape, happened early in World War II between the end of May and the beginning of June 1940. However before launching into a blow-by-blow account of the story of Dunkirk, the event does need to be set in context, and viewed as the conflict in Europe escalated with Adolf Hitler’s relentless march towards global supremacy.
This documentary is subtitled in more than 30 languages.
Autor: Liam Dale - Розваги
My Irish father in law. Royal Engineers (RE) 684 General Construction Company went to France ,Grévillers aerodrome ,February1940, did not pick up a rifle until March, after five shots, it was taken away. 10th May, German aircraft dropped bombs , a few got killed, in another company , then off to Boulogne. They dug in , a squad off to Calias to get intrenching materials 21st May . The Germans making their way with Tanks. After various stops arrived at Dunkirk on 26th May asked the Town Major where to set up the trenches. He ordered them out. [war diary ]26th May 1940 No transport was available until 1300 hours, when we embarked in a small drifter (small fishing boat) in the middle of a heavy aircraft attack. We landed at Dover at 1900 hours. 17th July 1944 returned to France, and on to Germany.
beau documentaire a la gloire de l'armée britannique.....mais pas un seul hommage aux milliers de soldats francais qui se sont sacrifié pour permettre ce rembarquement .....des compagnies entières de soldats francais ont tenues des positions intenables et se sont sacrifié !.....mais cela on n'en parle jamais !!!.....et pourtant sans leur courage il n'y aurait pas eu de réembarquement !.....le sacrifisme ultime
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My Mother's brother visted her one day in school; he was 18, in his army uniform, all the girls swooning for this young man; he kissed his younger sister before saying he has to go back to France now....and thats the last she ever saw of him, he's forever buried somewhere on that beach in Dunkirk now.....sadly, humanity never learns...humans seem so destined to destroy themselves....forget aliens, we can can kill ourselves quite adequately without their help thankyou!
My father was already in France as part of the bef and was a survivor of Dunkirk he went around the uk wiring pill boxes as an electrician from there to Egypt then onto Italy thankfully came home and in 1950 I was born
My grandad was with the Kings Royal Rifles at Calais, this fort was used by Churchill as the sacrifice so that the miracle of Dunkirk could take place. He was captured and spent the next 5 years as a PoW at the hands of the Germans, I understand from my mum that the treatment was appalling, much the same as the Japanese I’ll-treatment of POWs. I believe he was involved in the 1000 mile march, before being repatriated back to the uk after the war. I would like to find out more about what happened to him but not sure where to start. RIP grandad.
sorry for your loss, he mustve been a brave man to sacrifice himself
Your grandad was a gallant man.
Red Cross they may be able to help
My great grandad did the same. He was part of the BEF and had to march to a camp in Poland for the rest of the war. What a great and unimaginable sacrifice these men did for our many freedoms today!
My dad was in the battle of Normandy 101 airborne division.
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The hawker hurricane was a true work horse in Dunkirk and the battle of Britain and through the whole of WW2
Also the seldom mentioned Hawker Tempest
For every 100 allied fighters in the battle of Britain 75 were Hurricanes. But the Anglo American P51 "B" Mustang was the most effective.
@@den264 The Hurricane II was a pretty effective ground attack aircraft before planes like the Typhoon and Tempest came along. It was also used as convoy defence in near suicide capacity. regarding the Mustang, there's a video about that. Surprisingly the Spitfire was the top scorer of the war. Largely because it served throughout the war and on all fronts.
The early Alison-powered Mustangs were good at lower altitudes but once the Merlin was put into it it was the full package. There was a dive bomber version of the Mustang.
When comparing aircraft there are many factors. I have a book that contains studies of different aircraft, designed to be used by allied pilots to choose strategies for dealing with the strengths and weaknesses of their likely opponents. It includes the P51B, various marks of Spitfire, the FW-190 etc. what's noticeably is that there isn't a straight this plane is better than this one but that it depends how you're comparing them. One plane may be faster than another at 10,000 ft but slower at 20,000 ft and then faster again at 22,000 ft.
One plane might out-turn another at 140 knots but be out-turned at 200 knots. One might have an initial climb rate faster than another below 5,000 ft but get out-climbed from 5,000 ft up. Armament makes a difference. One 20mm cannon shell with tear a big hole in anything but it will also be heavier, have less ammunition, have a slower firing rate and more of a drop than a 50 calibre machine gun. How the cockpit is laid out makes a difference. Visibility makes a difference. Undercarriage makes a difference. Many losses were in training rather than combat. Stability or lack of stability makes a difference. A stable aircraft will be easier for new pilots and might be a better gunnery platform but an instable aircraft will be more maneuverable. How hands-on you need to be when flying can make a difference, especially on long escort flights. Fuel capacity, and range, matters depending on the role. Whether you have a radio or even radar for certain roles can make a difference. Ease of manufacturing matters, as does ease of maintenance. It's not much good having the best fighter in the world if you can only build three of them and they need the engine replaced after even other flight. On top of all these factors you have to consider the training level of the pilots. The book addresses a lot of these factors and gives advice such as when in combat with a Zero use your superiority in speed and climb rate and don't slow down and dog fight because that's the Zero's forte. In answer to the question which is best the answer is normally, well, that depends. Some Battle Of Britain veterans said when they had to convert from Hurricanes to Spitfires they weren't happy about it. Some German veterans preferred their older Me-109's to the FW-190. Each had their reasons.
Your grandfathers learned swimming in Dunkerque very well and they had a lot of gold medals in 1948 London Olympic Games...
Sounds like a bloody Nazi sympathizer
Well done as usual
Why does a documentary about Dunkirk have film of American soldiers on D-Day in it? Much better to actually read a book.
Great video
may 1940, the KING called for a national day of Prayer and we responded. Churchil organised thousands of small boats to ply the channel to bring the troops on Dunkirk home. The common theme was how calm the channel was a mill pond they said and yet the sky was to rough for the germans to fly, over NINE DAYS, the Germans had only TWO clear skys and the channel stayed calm, a panzer group rushing to Dunkirk was ordered by Hitler to stop where they were, NO reason given,this allowed all the troops to be evacuated, MIRACLE?????
As I’ve always said, gods English.
Please see my quick explanation of the famous Halt Order above .
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You know, the scary thing is that these days, we’re at war and don’t even know it, nor care.
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And all the French that we saved ended up with most of them going back to France. So much for our allies.
The French government asked them back because the battle of France wasn't finished yet. Why is it that people always talk about the French who were evacuated and never about the French who allowed the evacuation to happen by preventing German divisions to reach Dunkirk ?
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Turn the background music up i can still just about hear the narrator
What? What did you say? This seems to be a fairly common problem with youtube videos. One of the old tricks from the music world was to listen to your song production on the sort of equipment the public might be listening on, so you got a real picture of how it sounded, rather than on studio monitors. I guess some video sound producers don't do a similar test.
It probably sounds fine in their video-sound mixing studio or equivalent.
What music ? This is just Noise.
GREAT CONTEXT AND DETAIL!!! keep it up and you will definitely reach 10 mill subs !!! NICE JOB BRO!!
Great context and detail ! You mean inserting clips of American rangers being helped off the beaches of Normandy for instance ! Amazing the ammount of posters on here who "haven't got a clue"
@@den264 where's your video at??? Exactly!!! lol it takes time and knowledge to make these vids, so either make one or shut it
The German attack on Dunkirk was exhausted, supply lines fell behind, and they had to regroup, rearm and lick their wounds, that is the only reason for the pause.
I do agree with you, all factors played their part.
Far from being "exhausted," the Germans had just enjoyed a conflict-free romp through crypto-fascist France. They had every reason to feel energized by the prospect of a turkey-shoot of the exhausted British at Dunkirk.
Hitler at that stage of his life wanted to divide the world with the English Empire and be recognised as, if not the equal of King George, a ruler worthy of 10 Downing Street.
The firsty little secret of Dunkirk -- which everybody knows without admitting that they know it -- is that the English escaped at Dunkirk, alive but disarmed, because Hitler let them go. This, he hoped, would set the stage for negotiation -- with his partner across the table negotiating from weakness in defeat.
The Germans fell back to give the English a chance to get out. Hitler wanted to split the world with them: England to keep the Empire, Germany to get Eurasia at least to the Urals.
He, a vegetarian, could not possibly understand that Churchill, he of the fifteen-drink steak-and-lobster dinner, held him in utter contempt and could not faintly conceive of cutting any deals with a mere corporal.
The country around Dunkirk was also flat with few approach paths for tanks which would have made easy targets.
And Dunkirk is ringed by canals but dogged rear guard actions with many sacrificing themselves to get their comrades out
Historian James Holland provides an excellent explanation of the famous Halt Order .
But in a nut shell
- May 21st attack near Arras and hit the flanks of the 3rd , 5th and 7th panzer divisions.
- Rommell personally organizes guns to stop the BEF tanks , but then he reports they were hit with 5 (?) divisions and 100's of tanks .
Generals in Army Group A become concerned , and von Rundschedt (sp) issues a halt order to let the infantry catch up and consolidate their gains .
- The OKH think von Rundschedt is loosing an opportunity and transfer the panzer divisions to Army Group B .
- Goering phones Hitler and convinces him that the Luftwaffe should finish off the BEF and French 1st Army trapped in the Dunkirk pocket .
- Hitler finds out the tanks were transferred without his permission , issues his halt order , and transfers the panzers back to Army Group A .
- Hitler then has a " meeting without a coffee " with the OKH
- By the time the tanks get rolling again , this has taken 3 days - allowing the French and BEF to set up a perimeter around the canals .
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Dunkirk was NOT ONLY British troops but also Troops from all over the British (that time) empire, from my Island of Cyprus. My relative was there and he told us the simple truth. It was a retreat in total chaos and the German forces were very organised and capable. There is no need for glorifying such a catastrophe.
Le but est de toujours garder l envie de guerre, comme avec le nombre impressionnant de films de guerre... un conditionnement.
It was the best possible actions in the worst situation. That’s what this film is about. The most of the troops (meaning LIVES) were saved by that evacuation.
The miracle that anybody escaped is more than enough evidence to support the treatment of the Dunkirk evacuation as heroic. Seems to me you possess a bitterness that is clouding your judgement.
@@brunooubli0259 Dumb comment on your part.
@@stoneymcneal2458 In war you win, loose or die.
Yes from a human point of view they survived (so did my relative) and passed away at they grand old age of 100 !! But the way the British propaganda portray the event is as if it was a military success. IT WAS NOT. My relatives experiences told us differently.
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Surtout qu il y a beaucoup de français qui sont morts pour que les anglais puissent évacuer les leurs...
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Really, explain how so many ships were sunk?
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Some footage from D-Day (20 min) and no aircraft carriers involved which for me diminished this. Much less all the rest that had nothing to do with Dunkirk.
Can anyone see God's hand in the miracle of Dunkirk.
I watch a huge selection of documentaries about the military and the history of war, imagine my surprise when @ 20:34 I was watching newsreel footage of the D-day Landings on the 6th of June 1944 and it was from one of the United States invasion beaches Omaha or Utah or Pont du Hoc, how can someone possibly not know the difference, the Americans were coming ashore not going into the sea to be rescued. I don’t know who made this documentary but they might want to try a different profession.
That sort of thing is pretty common in these type of documentaries. I'm not sure if it's ignorance on the behalf of those selecting the clips, time and budget constraints, lack of suitable footage, a low opinion of the intelligence of the audience, or a combination of all those factors. If you've watched a lot of documentaries you've probably noticed yourself that there are a few 'go to' clips that appear in every documentary. Then of course there's the sound archives. I wouldn't be surprised if, whilst watching a video about Custer's Last Stand', I heard that damn Stuka siren. Ha ha
Spitfire, Spitfire, Spitfire!!! OUCH!!! There were far more HURRICANES than Spits in May, 1940, Dunkirk but they are not even mentioned. Sad.
i read a book abouit Dynamo and Churchill was told once that the French felt as though they were being passed over for evac and i think they were,I'm not sure but anyway,he raised hell with his staff or whoever and made damned sure to get as many French out and dont discriminate between them and the brits,or any other allied soldier,but it was a mess,a lot of soldiers had loaded up cigarettes and cases of acohol from the depots,by the wagon load btw,and stayed drunk for days till things started getting serious and the liquor and smokes didnt seem as important anymore,but a hell of an episode for all involved
Churchill avait donné des ordres pour que les soldats français soient embarqués en même temps que les soldats anglais. Ordres qui n'ont pas été suivis par les officiers anglais.
Se quedaron sin combustible dicen en algunos documentales de Hollywood, vas a librar una batalla y no llevas suficiente combustible, esto no tiene ningún sentido, la logística era fundamental para la guerra relámpago, y estos estaban acorralados por tankes alemanes , Todos los tankes sin armas ni combustible 😅 me rio por no vomitar , ese argumento se cae por su propio peso.
Why show shots of Amercan troop casualties from the Normandy landings
Cheap and easy, and no-one will notice.
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Ramsey was the Naval Leader of the Overlord!
After that he managed England to their first World cup win at Wembley !
@@den264 Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay
Furst time I knew of American Rangers being dragged off the beaches of Dunkirk ! I guess if you dont have the original film some scenes from Omaha beach in Normandy invasion will suffice. Also , those scenes of boats being bombed by German planes were taken in the English channel, with German dive bombers attacking channel shipping with impunity because old Stuffy Hugh Dowding forbade his pilots from chasing after German fighters and bombers in the channel in order to preserve his men and planes for the defense of Britain.
Hey, you should be grateful it wasn't footage of Gallipoli. Ha ha. I came from watching another of these videos (on D-Day) where Panzers were illustrated with footage of French tanks. It used the same Spitfire footage in the intro (shot by the narrator I believe). I think the script is written by Sue Hosler then narrated by Liam Dale then maybe handed over to LDTV who add the archive footage. Most documentaries (including ones with bigger budgets than this one) use illustrative footage that is 'close enough' for the average viewer. So you'll see a mixture of chronological errors plus footage from military training films, even movies. So, narration mentions tanks, show clip of a tank, any will do. There are a couple of clips that show up in every single WW1 documentary and they are both 'recreations' from the 1916 Somme movie which ironically, has lots of real footage as well as the recreations, but it's the recreations that get used because they look more dramatic. Documentaries are made to a budget and are generally Warfaretainment. They're also aimed at specific audiences, so keep that in mind.
Tough decision, but he was right
Unfortunately the negative role of Soviet Union and Stalin was undervalued by polite author of this video.
Comintern (linked to the Kremlin) helped Hitler on the election of 1933
The Soviet Union helped Germany even before Hitler to train armed forces - German pilots, tank chiefs etc all gone through officers schools in Russia.
And in 1939 Stalin de facto acted as Hitler ally - occupation of Eastern Poland, Baltic States etc.
Stalin Soviet Union was weaker than Germany but not less aggressive - the Winter war 1939-40 and occupation of Eastern Finland. The Suomi homeland is still under Russian bear in poverty and disorder
UK was very close to state of war with the Soviet Union.
UK was going to send troops to help the Fins but the Norwegians wouldn't let them pass. An invasion of Norway was considered to get them through but Finland did a deal before it happened. The Fins received UK planes Blenheims amongst others.
Why is there film footage of US forces in the section specific to Dunkirk... Poor editing.
thanks to french to hold the german , for the brits to leave home , not mention enough in any of those documentary
God decides the outcome of war.
in the first third of this doc some of the films used have nothing to do with dunkirk it even shows americans i belive that was taken from a d day landing
Absolutely correct ! I guess if you can't be bothered to find the proper contextual film, just throw in some scenes from the Normandy landings.
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Ironic really, most of the French troops rescued refused to stay in England and returned to France where they joined the Vichy French forces and fought against us in North Africa and the Middle East. Even after D Day when it was obvious the Allies were winning it is estimated that less than a half of 1% of the French population assisted the resistance in any way let alone took up arms.
16 000 french soldiers died to save your english asses in Dunkerque. Even Churchill told it. And the ones who were avaible to join Britain did not refuse to stay for joining Vichy, they left to keep on fighting against Germany.
You should also think about Roosevelt who refused to consider De Gaulle as the real free France for many years, keeping on speaking with Vichy.
So go back to school and shut up.
Thank you.
Kisses.
Si un jour il y a eu la bataille de Dunkerque et que les Anglais ont pu être sauvé c'est aussi grâce aux soldats Français qui se sont sacrifier pour retardé l'armée allemandes .Mais ça vous Anglais vous n'en parlé jamais .
@@prhodan59 My French is not very good but are you talking about a French rearguard? Both British and French troops fought to cover the evacuation, the French were mostly released by the Germans after processing while the British had 5 years in a PoW camp.
He's a fairy tale. It is enough to see the French reports of the time In Lille the French were alone. The pocket of Lille resisted from May 25 to May 31, 1940 to the encirclement of the German army commanded by General Waeger during the battle of France. days given to the English to embark. My uncle was in Dunkirk he was rejected 7 times by the English and the 7th time he had shrapnel in his neck. He did his 5 years as a prisoner of war well and as a gift the German surgeons who treated him He was operated on and made a scar in the shape of a swastika in his neck by removing the splinter. All his life he lived summer and winter with a scarf because of this scar. Just that a retirement is never a victory but congratulations to the English for having done it but do not forget the others who suffered and his died to help you. When the liberation of the French after Dunkirk is once again a fairy tale seen in English.
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@@johnallen7807 It was at dawn on May 25 that the War Office gave the order to General Gort, the head of the British Expedionary Force, to "operate immediately towards the coast" where the fleet of Operation "Dynamo" was waiting for him. mounted on May 19, in Dover, by Admiral Bertram Ramsay.
Without referring to the French command, the British expeditionary force immediately set out for Dunkirk, abandoning to themselves seven divisions of the 1st French army (or what was left of it: the equivalent of three divisions) which, orders of General Molinié, will defend Lille and its suburbs so heroically for six days that General von Reichenau, commanding the 6th German army, grants them the honors of war. And on June 1, three armed French companies marched on the Grand-Place in Lille in front of General Waeger, commander of the 27th army corps of the Wehrmacht, representative of von Reichenau, surrounded by his staff and a company who presents arms to the vanquished.
The toll is heavy since by fighting until their ammunition runs out, the French troops leave 40,000 prisoners in the hands of the enemy, including, among half a dozen generals, June and Prioux, the winner of Hannut. But Churchill himself acknowledges in his Memoirs that it was their resistance that made Operation Dynamo possible: www.lefigaro.fr/vox/histoire/il-y-a-80-ans-dunkerque-la-resistance-heroique-des-francais-face-a-la-ruee-allemande-20200604
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The music on this was very irritating.
Beyond irritating.
Thankfully for the world England is an island otherwise the outcome of the war would have been very different...
Technically England is part of an island. The internet is the natural home of the pedant. Ha ha
Sorry mate England ISN'T an island.
@@jimibhoy8935 what is it then dumbo? You’re not the sharpest tool in the shed I see…
And that’s why Japan won the war, because it’s an island. Oh, wait...
@@solrosenberg4529 Did the allies invade Japan? No they threw two fucking atomic bombs at it for them to surrender. Did Hitler have the means to invade England across the English Channel in 1940 or an atomic bomb? No and that's the only reason why England was able to stay this long and fortunately Hitler wasn't able to build the atomic bomb before we did otherwise he would have used it on England. So yeah the brits can be thankful for that otherwise it would have been over for them in 1940.
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Kan er nou nooit eens gewoon iets verteld worden zonder die klote kenker muziek op die achterlijke achtergrond.
Sorry had to turn it off at 2032.The script may be spot on, but why show USA troops from 6/6/44 in the footage.
The music makes the narrator almost inaudible
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And while the troops were being evacuated Churchill hung the the 51st Scots out to dry
But Englandshire was magnificent.
Gli inglesi devono ringraziare i tedeschi che non infierirono su di loro nella convinzione di concludere una pace di compromesso, come fece intendere Hitler nel suo discorso al Reichstag di pochi giorni dopo...non ci fu nulla di "eroico" a Dunkerque...
The reason Churchill rejected Hitler's overtures for a peace between Germany and Britain was because of a transaction of money from a Jewish group known as the "corel group" in to Churchill's bank account. Churchill was heavily in debt at that time and on the verge of loosing his beloved country home Chartwells, when he mysteriously came up with the debt money. However as we all know Jews in particular don't hand over money without some sort of favor or access to government.Their price was that Churchill reject the peace offer and continue the war against the Germans who they hated with a passion after hearing of the attrocities enacted upon their brothers by the Nazi's in Germany. So effectively millions of lives were sacrificed unnecessarily because of Churchill's weakness for drink and gambling.
These guys must be turning in there graves what is happening in this country now
I wanted to watch a video about Dunkirk not more propaganda
the movie sucked
Apologize immediately.
Yes it did.
@user-se2xm5yp6u it was as bad as 1917 just saw ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT it could have been shorter but it was still much better
Fleeing death, not emigrating
10 minutes in, nothing about Dunkirk so far. Bye bye.
Never say die? More like drop ur equipment and RUN AWAY! 😂
To live,and fight another day
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