Evacuation of Dunkirk

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:military_operation
gptkbp:airOpposition Luftwaffe
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Operation_Dynamo
gptkbp:casualties over 68,000 British soldiers killed, wounded, or captured
gptkbp:category World War II operations
Evacuations
1940 in France
gptkbp:codename gptkb:Operation_Dynamo
gptkbp:commander gptkb:Erwin_Rommel
gptkb:General_Alan_Brooke
gptkb:Vice_Admiral_Bertram_Ramsay
gptkb:Lord_Gort
gptkb:General_Harold_Alexander
gptkb:Gerd_von_Rundstedt
gptkb:Fedor_von_Bock
gptkbp:depictedIn film 'Atonement' (2007)
film 'Dunkirk' (2017)
book 'Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man' by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
gptkbp:endDate 4 June 1940
gptkbp:evacuatedForces gptkb:French_Army
gptkb:Belgian_Army
gptkb:British_Expeditionary_Force
gptkbp:evacuatedTroops over 338,000
gptkbp:followedBy Battle of Britain
gptkbp:historicalPeriod 20th century
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Evacuation of Dunkirk
gptkbp:involvedCountry gptkb:Belgium
gptkb:France
gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:location gptkb:Dunkirk,_France
gptkbp:navalSupport gptkb:Royal_Navy
gptkb:French_Navy
civilian vessels
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Dunkirk_spirit
use of civilian vessels (the "Little Ships")
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:World_War_II
gptkb:Battle_of_France
gptkbp:precededBy German invasion of France
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Fall_of_France
gptkb:Battle_of_Dunkirk
gptkb:Miracle_of_Dunkirk
gptkbp:result Allied evacuation
gptkbp:shipsLost over 200 Allied ships
gptkbp:significance boosted British morale
major Allied escape
allowed Britain to continue fighting
gptkbp:startDate 26 May 1940
gptkbp:supports gptkb:Royal_Air_Force
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:World_War_II_bombing
gptkb:World_War_II_in_Europe
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6