In May 1940, Germany moved towards France, catching allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under the air and ground lighting of the British and French troops, the troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach, using all the naval and civil ships that can bewas to find out. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were evacuated safely.
Allied Soldiers of Belgium, the British Empire and France surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a brutal battle in the Second World War. evacuation unionsoldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army of beaches and ports Dunkirk, France, between May 26 and June 4, 1940, during the battle for France in the Second World War II.