How did the United States respond after Dunkirk?
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As British and French troops were forced into a shrinking pocket by the relentless onslaught of the German army, the Royal and Merchant navies, helped by a fleet of small civilian craft, launched a momentous effort to rescue them — and miraculously managed to save more than 338,000 men in just 10 days.
When Churchill ordered the beginning of Operation Dynamo (evacuation code name), the first gloomy estimates were that only 45,000 of the soldiers trapped on the beaches could be rescued, but 10 days later more than 338,000 had been brought home. The bulk of the troops crossed the channel in Royal and Merchant navy ships.
A fleet of smaller civilian craft played a crucial role by making repeated trips between the beaches and larger vessels waiting offshore, often under heavy bombardment and with no means of defense. By the time Operation Dynamo was over, some 68,000 men had been killed or captured, among them some of the civilians that had volunteered to crew their own boats to help in the evacuation.
Subsequently, Churchill referred to the outcome as a "miracle," and appeals to the "Dunkirk spirit" — of triumph in the face of adversity — are still heard in Britain today. The successful evacuation of so many soldiers, previously thought lost, provided a great boost to British morale at a time of peril. The British press presented the evacuation as a "Disaster Turned to Triumph" so successfully that Churchill had to remind the country, in a speech to the House of Commons on June 4, that "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.
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✔✔The Battle of Dunkirk was a military operation that took place in Dunkirk , France, during the Second World War.
✔✔The battle was fought between the Allies and Nazi Germany. As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation to Britain of British and other Allied forces in Europe from 26 May to 4 June 1940.
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