The Battle of Dunkirk (French: Bataille de Dunkerque) was fought around the French port of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) during the Second World War, between the...
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The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000...
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Dunkirk is a 2017 epic historical war thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World...
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World War. Battle of Dunkirk, Raid on Dunkirk or Siege of Dunkirk may also refer to: Battle of Dunkirk (1383), a battle between English and Franco-Flemish...
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The siege of Dunkirk in World War II (also known as the Second Battle of Dunkirk) began in September 1944, when the Second Canadian Division surrounded...
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Dunkirk is a 2004 BBC Television factual about the Battle of Dunkirk and the Dunkirk evacuation in World War II. Dunkirk used archive film footage, eyewitness...
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The Battle of the Dunes (French: Bataille des Dunes, Spanish: Batalla de las Dunas), also known as the Battle of Dunkirk, took place on 14 June 1658, near...
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Expeditionary Force (BEF), most of whom fell prior to and during the Battle of Dunkirk in 1939 and 1940, in the fall of France during the Second World...
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at the Battle of Guinegate. When Mary died in 1482, Maximilian retained Flanders according to the terms of the 1482 Treaty of Arras. Dunkirk, along with...
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John Hemingway (RAF officer) (category Royal Air Force pilots of World War II)
World War in the Battle of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Allied invasion of Italy and the Invasion of Normandy. Following the death of Terry Clark in...
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docudrama Dunkirk: The Battle of France, a board wargame "Dunkirk", a track on The Snow Goose by the British band Camel Battle of Dunkirk (disambiguation)...
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of Dunkirk were about 850 private boats that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation...
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second halt on 21 May after the Battle of Arras, the final halt order of 24 May would have been irrelevant, because Dunkirk would have already been captured...
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Zuydcoote (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote) by Robert Merle. Set during the Battle of Dunkirk, the film follows Julien Maillat, a French Army sergeant who tries...
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Le Paradis massacre (category 20th-century military history of the United Kingdom)
troops of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) were attempting to retreat through the Pas-de-Calais region during the Battle of Dunkirk. Soldiers of the...
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Gerd von Rundstedt (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords)
the invasion of Poland. He commanded Army Group A during the Battle of France, and requested the Halt Order during the Battle of Dunkirk. He was promoted...
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The action of 18 February 1639 was a naval battle of the Eighty Years' War fought off Dunkirk between a Dutch fleet under the command of Admiral Maarten...
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destroyers were lost in the Norwegian campaign, another six in the Battle of Dunkirk and a further 10 in the Channel and North Sea between May and July...
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Dunkirk: The Battle of France is an out of print World War II board wargame simulating Operation Dynamo. It was designed by Gary Gygax and published by...
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Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh (31 May 2007). Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man. Penguin UK. ISBN 9780141906164. "Battle of South Shanxi". WW2DB. Archived from the...
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defence of the Lille Pocket enabled more Allied troops to retreat into the Dunkirk perimeter and take part in the Battle of Dunkirk. During the morning of 27...
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Army Group A (category Army groups of the German Army in World War II)
at occasions such as the Battle of Sedan, Battle of Boulogne and Battle of Dunkirk and that ultimately led to the Armistice of 22 June 1940. Army Group...
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usage has carried over to motorcycles. Following its retreat from the Battle of Dunkirk (where it is reputed that enough equipment was left behind to equip...
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age of Shōwa', or 'Light of the South'). Curtin compared the loss of Singapore to the Battle of Dunkirk. The Battle of Britain occurred after Dunkirk; "the...
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Artillery took part in the Battle of Dunkirk and also served in the campaigns of Egypt, Iraq and Italy. Remarkably, a number of these soldiers managed to...
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operations. Three examples of rearguard actions are: Rorke's Drift during the Zulu War (1879) Battle of Tirad Pass (1899) Battle of Dunkirk (1940) A World War...
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Curtiss HA (redirect from Curtiss Dunkirk Fighter)
and Motor Company. Despite the nickname, it's unrelated to the 1940 Battle of Dunkirk. The HA was a two-seat biplane with a central float and balancing...
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Fionn Whitehead (category Alumni of Richmond upon Thames College)
February 2017). "Meet Fionn Whitehead, the Lead of Christopher Nolan's Highly Anticipated Battle Epic 'Dunkirk'". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved 6 June 2017. Chu...
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Margaret Kemble Gage (redirect from Portrait of Margaret Kemble Gage)
British Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II up to the Battle of Dunkirk. Gabriella Wilde (1989–) British model and actress Her brother, Stephen...
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Wormhoudt massacre (category History of Nord (French department))
France in May 1940. As part of the British Expeditionary Force's (BEF) retreat to Dunkirk, the 144th Infantry Brigade of the 48th (South Midland) Infantry...
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