the evacuation at dunkirk as the germans take h, b, l, d, n and now france, british and canadian...
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The Evacuation At Dunkirk
As the Germans take H, B, L, D, N and now France, British and Canadian
soldiers are forced to retreat from the shores of northern France at Dunkirk
Dunkirk – 20 miles across the English Channel from Ramsgate
Surrounded at Dunkirk – the only way out is by sea
Some soldiers stood in the water for hours waiting to get on a ship
Some soldiers could get to the ships in small boats
On the beaches the engineer units built jetties out of abandoned trucks so that troops could clamber out to the
boats. Huge lines were formed on the beaches when ships were available for embarkation.
• The small boats negotiated the shallow waters off La Panne on the French-Belgian border, where no deep draught ships could approach and extracted the brave exhausted British Expeditionary Force, the French Army and a few thousand troops of the Belgian Army from the beaches of Dunkirk.
Some of the “Little Ships”
• It was originally hoped that up to 45,000 men might be rescued. The actual total came to 338,226 men. The Royal Navy lost six destroyers, 24 small warships. Over 70 of the "Little ships" were lost too.
• Poem about the Sarah P - one of the 700 private boats that joined the rescue
“Will came back from school that day …”
Years of Crisis
5 Main Battle Areas
1940 to 1942
Battle of Britain – “We Will Never Surrender” - WC
The German Luftwaffe
The British RAF, joined by 80 Canadian pilots
Air raid sirens, black outs, staying underground, and fighting fires on
the ground
Winston Churchill says thank you to the RAF
War on the Eastern Front – “Operation Barbarossa”
Soviet Soldiers
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbour
Over half of the US naval fleet was sunk in two hours
Bombing the Naval Base/ Communications Centre
Japanese Empire - 1942
Battle of the Atlantic
An Allied tanker torpedoed by a German U-boat
Battle of the Atlantic
The Allies Try to Land in France at Dieppe
5/6 of the soldiers sent are Canadians (5000 out of 6100)
Disaster at Dieppe
Tanks get stuck in the pebble beach
The Germans are ready and are shooting from the cliffs
Less than ½ of the Canadians can return to the retreating ships