Friday, December 7, 2018
Dunkirk, a military miracle.
As France was being invaded by the Germans, hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers were in danger. A rescue operation was launched by the British to head to the beaches of Dunkirk in France to evacuate and rescue as many soldiers as possible. It was thought to be impossible due to the sheer number of soldiers and with the speed at which German forces were closing in. Nonetheless, the rescue was successful as around 330,000 soldiers were evacuated despite air strikes from the Germans. Although France was lost, this was a massive success for the allied forces since so many soldiers were preserved, meaning there were more soldiers that were capable of fighting.
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2 comments:
Gives good insight to how lucky the troops were to be saved, if the Germans had advanced then all the British soldiers would've been captured.
that would suck because there were over hundreds of thousands soldiers were in danger and they had to be saved
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