The deliverance: Seventy-five years on

[wemyss]

Operation DYNAMO did the impossible in a thoroughly British way.

From the moment that the French defences at Sedan and on the Meuse were broken at the end of the second week of May, only a rapid retreat to Amiens and the south could have saved the British and French Armies who had entered Belgium at the appeal of the Belgian King....

HMSS Grafton,

Comments

[pathology_doc]

To me, the real miracle (which we would probably not see repeated today, alas) was that the small-boat sailors - the amateurs and civilians - thought nothing of the Army's failure to defeat the enemy; only that it was in mortal peril and it needed them. And so off they went - completely unarmed and defenceless in themselves - to do what they could to get it out.

[froganon]

Great loyalty and greater courage. Thank you for this!