How many people evacuated from Dunkirk?
Dunkirk retreat, from May 26th to June 4th, 1940, a total of 338,226 people withdrew to Britain, including about 2/0/5,000 British troops, 90,000 French troops and 33,000 Belgian troops. However, when these troops withdrew, they gave up all heavy equipment and brought back only rifles and hundreds of machine guns to Britain. On the beaches of Dunkirk, the British and French allied forces abandoned 1, 200 cannons, 750 anti-aircraft guns, 500 anti-tank guns, 63,000 cars, 75,000 motorcycles, 700 tanks, 2 1, 000 machine guns and 64 million.
What was the loss of Dunkirk's retreat?
Many later historians estimated that more than 40,000 British and French troops were captured and 20,000 others died in the retreat, so 68,000 British and French soldiers were killed in the retreat in Dunkirk. Among these casualties, some were killed by attacks, some were killed by German air strikes and artillery fire while waiting to board the ship on the beach, and some were sunk by German ships at sea and buried at the bottom of the sea. In addition to people, the Dunkirk retreat also lost some important strategic resources. Britain mobilized 86 1 ships of various types to retreat, but 226 British ships and 17 French ships were sunk by the Germans. A total of 250 ships can no longer serve in this retreat. The British Air Force lost 106 luxury planes and France lost 17. Some historians in later generations have different views on the specific losses of Dunkirk's retreat. They think that the loss of France in this retreat is not great, but according to French official records, France not only killed more than 40 thousand people in this retreat, but also some air force pilots and excellent generals were killed in the retreat, so these casualties should also be included.