Spirit of Dunkirk

Operation Dynamo:

The Dunkerque operation of 1940 (the conventional name is Dynamo), the evacuation of allied (English and French and Belgian) troops from the Dunkirk area (France) to England from May 26 to June 4, 1940, during the Second World War of 1939-45. As a result of the breakthrough of the German-fascist tank formations on May 20, 1940, the troops of the 1st Allied Army Group (10 English, 18 French and 12 Belgian divisions) were cut off to Abbeville and cut off and pressed to the sea in the region of Gravlin, Arras, Bruges. With Z. and Yu.-Z. against them came the troops of Army Group "A" Colonel-General G. Rundstedt (tank groups of General E. Kleist and G. Goth and the Fourth Army), with V. and J.-V. - Army Group "B" Colonel-General V. Leeb (18th and 6th Army). The English command decided on May 20 to withdraw its troops without informing the Allies. The evacuation was facilitated by the fact that on May 24, A. Hitler approved the order given on May 23 by Rundstedt, about th