Reasons For The Battle Of Dunkirk

During World War II, the invasion of Germany caused an evacuation of the British and French soldiers at Dunkirk, France. The evacuation of Dunkirk was also known as “Operation Dynamo”. The Operation Dynamo lasted nine days from May 26, 1940 to June 4, 1940. Since they weren’t enough ships to transport too many soldiers, the British asked all civilians to lend them any type of ship, so they could evacuate as many soldiers as they could. The battle of Dunkirk, France was a defeat for the British and French. They lost a lot of lives, and many soldiers were injured, also they lost a lot of ships, many planes were lost too, and they didn’t win anything instead they lost a lot of things. The battle of Dunkirk was a defeat because the British didn’t had enough ships to evacuate too many soldiers so they had to ask the …show more content…
For instance, “German bombs had hit many of the ships beside the mole that afternoon”, (Sebag-Montefiore, 2017). This occurred in the night of May 29 and 30, it was so bad that the mole was unusable and this prevented any ship to go there that night to keep evacuating more soldiers. Also the worst night for the ships was May 29 because the Germans sunk ship after ship, making them out of action. As evidence, “In the early hours, HMS Wakeful, a destroyer weighed down by its load of evacuated British soldiers, had been torpedoed by a German E-boat, causing the ship to break into pieces”, (Sebag-Montefiore, 2017). In the movie Dunkirk when Tommy and Gibson pretend to be paramedics, so they can be able to evacuate. They are able to take they soldier to one of the vessels, but another soldier in the vessel told them to leave, and when they go to one side of the bridge, the Germans bomb the vessel making it sunk. There were also about 930 planes lost, which includes about 475 fighters, and at least 170 ships were out of