Which military operation of World War II had the codename 'Operation Dynamo'?
"Operation Paula Unternehmen Paula (Undertaking or Operation Paula) is the German codename given for the Second World War ""Luftwaffe"" offensive operation to destroy the remaining units of the ""Armée de l'Air"" (ALA), or French Air Force during the Battle of France in 1940. On 10 May the German armed forces (""Wehrmacht"") began their invasion of Western Europe. By 3 June, the British Army had withdrawn from Dunkirk and the continent in Operation Dynamo, the Netherlands and Belgium had surrendered and most of the formations of the French Army were disbanded or destroyed. To complete the defeat of France, the Germans"
"Operation Dynamo, led by Canadian Pilot Officer W. L. Willie McKnight (10 victories) and Pilot Officer Percival Stanley Turner (seven victories), who served in No. 242 Squadron, consisting mostly of Canadian personnel. Losses were 22 pilots killed and three captured. On 27 May 1940, in one of the final mass encounters of the ""Blitzkrieg"", 13 Hurricanes from 501 Squadron intercepted 24 Heinkel He 111s escorted by 20 Bf 110s; during the ensuing battle, 11 Heinkels were claimed as ""kills"" and others damaged, with little damage to the Hurricanes. On 7 June 1940, ""Cobber"" Kain, the first RAF ace of the"
"Dunkirk evacuation The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops during the six-week long Battle of France. In a speech to the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called this ""a colossal military disaster"", saying ""the whole root and core and brain of the"
"flown only by civilian vessels that took part in the Dunkirk rescue operation. Dunkirk evacuation The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops during the six-week long Battle of France. In a speech to the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called this ""a"
"Operation Diadem Operation Diadem, also referred to as the Fourth Battle of Monte Cassino or, in Canada, the Battle of the Liri Valley, was an offensive operation undertaken by the Allies of World War II (U.S. Fifth Army and British Eighth Army in May 1944, as part of the Italian Campaign of World War II. ""Diadem"" was supported by air attacks called Operation Strangle. The opposing force was the German 10th Army. The object of ""Diadem"" was to break the German defenses on the Gustav Line (the western half of the Winter Line) and open up the Liri Valley, the"
"Operation Dynamo was evacuating encircled British, French and Belgian troops from Dunkirk in the north. On 3 June 1940 Smik joined the Czechoslovak Army, which the Czechoslovak government-in-exile had reconstituted in France since October 1939. He was posted to a Czechoslovak training unit in Agde on the coast of Languedoc, where he applied to transfer to the Czechoslovak Air Force group in the French ""Armée de l'Air"". But the ""Armée de l'Air"" was now fighting the ""Luftwaffe""s increasing air supremacy and had no spare resources to train any more Czechoslovak recruits. On 5 June German forces launched ""Fall Rot"" to"
"gave the British and French a few days to fortify their defences and evacuate by sea across the English Channel, codenamed Operation Dynamo. Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, ordered any ship or boat available, large or small, to collect the stranded soldiers. 338,226 men (including 123,000 French soldiers) were evacuated – the ""miracle of Dunkirk"", as Churchill called it. It took over 900 vessels to evacuate the BEF, with two-thirds of those rescued embarking via the harbour, and over 100,000 taken off the beaches. More than 40,000 vehicles as well as massive amounts of other military equipment and supplies"
"Operation Crossbow Crossbow was the code name of the World War II campaign of Anglo-American ""operations against all phases of the German long-range weapons programme. It included operations against research and development of the weapons, their manufacture, transportation and their launching sites, and against missiles in flight"". The original 1943 code name ""Bodyline"" was replaced with ""Crossbow"" on November 15, 1943. Post-war, Crossbow operations became known as Operation ""Crossbow"" as early as 1962, particularly following the 1965 film of the same name. In May 1943 Allied surveillance observed the construction of the first of 11 large sites in northern France"
"Operation Bolero Operation Bolero was the commonly used reference for the code name of the United States military troop buildup in the United Kingdom during World War II in preparation for the initial cross-channel invasion plan known as Operation Roundup, to be implemented in mid-1943, or for its lesser contingency alternative, Operation Sledgehammer, to be executed in the fall of 1942 in the event of German setbacks or to ease Axis pressure on the Eastern Front. (""Bolero"" was the code name used in official communications to stand in for ""United Kingdom"" when describing the theater or movements.) What later became"
"June; shortly after 14:00hrs, the Admiralty announced that Operation Dynamo was over. By then ""Tynwald"" had already left the eastern mole after her fourth trip. She was the last ship to leave, landing 3,000 French troops in England later that day. Her total in the operation is officially given as 8,953 troops. At the end of 1940, she was compulsorily acquired, fitted out as an auxiliary anti-aircraft ship and commissioned as HMS ""Tynwald"" on 1 October 1941. Armed with 6 4"" AA guns (3X2), and 8 2-Pdr AA guns (2X4). After a year on convoy escort duties around Britain she"
"minefields around Scapa Flow and off Loch Ewe and the Clyde estuary. At the end of May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was trapped by German forces at Dunkirk, France and it was decided to launch Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk. ""Sharpshooter"" was one of the ships assigned to the evacuation. She made her first evacuation run on the morning of 29 May, landing 69 troops picked up from the Dunkirk beaches at Dover, with a second run made on the morning of the 30 May, picking up 273 troops. ""Sharpshooter"" was outbound on another"
"With the outbreak of World War II she was brought briefly back into service to evacuate children from Glasgow to areas on the Clyde coast, and was then requisitioned by the Royal Navy to serve as the lead ship of the 12th Minesweeping Flotilla. The flotilla consisted of five paddle steamers, was based out of Harwich on the east coast of England, and tasked with sweeping the shipping lanes. On 28 May 1940, their flotilla was given orders to stock up and sail south to take part in Operation Dynamo, the effort to evacuate Allied soldiers from the beaches of"
"in a collision of Harwich, and was under repair in London until 27 April. On the night of 24/25 May 1940 ""Mallard"" formed part of the escort for two blockships, and , which were to be used to block Zeebrugge harbour. The attempt failed, with one blockship running aground and the other being scuttled in the wrong place, and so was repeated on the night of 26/27 May, again with ""Mallard"" as part of the escort. This time the two blockships, and , were scuttled in the correct place, blocking the entrance to Zeebrugge harbour. Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of"
"first into an air-raid shelter and then later into a military command centre and underground hospital. In May 1940, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey directed the evacuation of French and British soldiers from Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo, from his headquarters in the cliff tunnels. A military telephone exchange was installed in 1941 and served the underground headquarters. The switchboards were constantly in use and had to have a new tunnel created alongside it to house the batteries and chargers necessary to keep them functioning. A statue of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay stands outside the tunnels in honour of his work on"
"Operation Commando Operation Commando was an offensive undertaken by UN forces during the Korean War between 2–5 October 1951. The U.S. I Corps (including four U.S. Divisions, the 1st Commonwealth Division and the 1st South Korean Division) seized the Jamestown Line, destroying elements of the 42nd, 47th, 64th and 65th Chinese Armies. This prevented the Communist forces from interdicting the U.N. supply lines near Seoul. The attack began on 3 October 1951 from the Wyoming Line, which had been extended during Operation Minden, and ended on 15 October, with a few hills south of the line still in Communist hands."
"Operation Donnerkeil Unternehmen Donnerkeil (Operation Thunderbolt) was the codename for a German military operation of the Second World War. ""Donnerkeil"" was designed as an air superiority operation to support the ""Kriegsmarine"" (German Navy) Operation Cerberus, also known as the Channel Dash. In 1941 ""Kriegsmarine"" surface vessels had carried out commerce raiding sorties in support of the German U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. In January 1941 Operation Berlin was launched followed by Operation Rheinübung in May 1941. The dominance of the Royal Navy's surface fleet prevented the German units returning to ports in the Baltic sea or Germany. The"
"War II, Dechaineux was attached to the RN Tactical and Minesweeping divisions until April 1940. Then, as the commander of the destroyer HMS ""Vivacious"", he made five trips to assist Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Dunkirk. On 26 May the ship was allocated to Dynamo. At first, deployed from Dover, on 27 May the ship patrolled the beaches off Dunkirk, providing general anti-aircraft cover and protecting against fast E-boat attacks while scores of vessels crossed the mercifully semi-calm Channel in evacuation. The pleasure steamer ""Mona’s Isle"", for example, now fitted out as an armed boarding vessel, was amongst the many."
"evacuation Operation Dynamo, began on 26 May; with over 330,000 British and French troops being evacuated by 4 June, and another 220,000 evacuated from other French ports. The majority of the BEF, which had sustained some 68,000 casualties, including 40,000 prisoners and most of the 51st (Highland) Division, was saved, but had to leave much of its equipment behind. However, the British Army's first encounter with the Germans during the Second World War had been in the Norwegian Campaign, following the German invasion on 9 April 1940. The British had responded by sending troops, consisting mainly of Territorials of the"
"Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa (German: ""Unternehmen Barbarossa"") was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs, especially Poles, as a slave-labour force for the Axis war effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories. In the two years leading up to the invasion, Germany and the Soviet Union signed political and economic"
"Operation Checkmate (commando raid) Operation Checkmate was the codename for a raid on shipping at Haugesund, Norway in April 1943 during the Second World War by British Commandos. The raiding party consisted of seven men of No. 14 (Arctic) Commando who managed to sink one ship using limpet mines. While waiting in hiding for the transport back to the United Kingdom they were captured on 14 and 15 May 1943 and eventually taken to Sachsenhausen and Belsen concentration camps where six of them were executed, victims of the Commando Order. The seventh man died of typhus. Operation Checkmate was the"
"Operation Dracula During World War II, Operation Dracula was the name given to an airborne and amphibious attack on Rangoon by British, American and Indian forces, part of the Burma Campaign. The plan was first proposed in mid-1944 when the Allied South East Asia Command was preparing to reoccupy Burma, but was dropped as the necessary landing craft and other resources were not available. In March 1945 however, it was resurrected, as it was vital to capture Rangoon before the start of the monsoon (which was expected in the second week of May) to secure the lines of communication of"
"Operation Devon Operation Devon was the codeword given to an amphibious landing by British Commandos at Termoli on the Adriatic coast of Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. It was launched on 3 October 1943, as part of the attack on the Volturno Line, and was undertaken by No. 3 Commando, No. 40 (Royal Marine) Commando and other elements of the 2nd Special Service Brigade. It was later reinforced by two brigades of the British 78th Infantry Division. In the early hours of 3 October 1943, Nos. 3 and 40 (RM) Commandos elements of the Special Raiding"
"In May 1940 she was again reassigned, this time to Dover Command to take part in Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, which she joined on 28 May 1940. She made seven trips between Dunkirk and Dover, England, carrying 241 troops in a voyage on 29 May 582 and 622 troops in two trips on 30 May 640 and 168 troops in two voyages on 1 June 1940, and 37 and 414 troops in two trips on 3 June 1940. On 12 June 1940 she joined the escort of the French battleship ""Jean Bart"" on ""Jean"
"Operation Manacle Operation Manacle was the name given to a series of British Commando raids during the Second World War. The raids were conducted by Layforce II and ""ad hoc"" formation formed by three troops from No. 4 Commando Their objectives were to take out German strong-points and to conduct reconnaissance, on the coastline of France. They were unofficially known as the ""Menday Force"" named after the commander of Layforce II. No.4 Commando participated in Manacle 5 at Qnival and Manacle 8 at Quend Plage operating from Dover. The Manacle, and associated Hardtack raids, were finally abandoned on orders from"
"Operation Dynamo, a total of British troops. In 2001, Brodhurst wrote that many civilians escaped from French Atlantic and Mediterranean ports to England via Gibraltar and that civilians left the Channel Islands, from Much military equipment was lost but cycles. of ammunition, of stores, of petrol, and were recovered. During the BEF evacuations anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank guns were destroyed or abandoned along with consisting of cycles and 45,000 cars and lorries, of ammunition, of supplies and equipment and of petrol. For every seven soldiers who escaped through Dunkirk, one man was left behind as a prisoner of war. The"
"Channel Dash The Channel Dash or Unternehmen Zerberus (Operation Cerberus) was a German naval operation during World War II. A ""Kriegsmarine"" (German navy) squadron of both of the s, the heavy cruiser and escorts, ran a British blockade from Brest in Brittany. ""Scharnhorst"" and ""Gneisenau"" had arrived in Brest on 22 Mar 1941 after the successful Operation Berlin in the Atlantic. Further anti-commerce raids were planned (until late May 1941) and the ships used the dockyard facilities at Brest for refit and repair. They represented a substantial threat to Allied trans-Atlantic convoys, so a series of air raids were carried"
"cross-Channel military traffic and the denial of the passage through the Straits of Dover by submarines. As Vice-Admiral Dover, Ramsay was responsible for the Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation ""Dynamo"". Working from the underground tunnels beneath Dover Castle, he and his staff worked for nine days straight to rescue troops trapped in France by the German forces. For his success in bringing home 338,226 British and allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, he was asked to personally report on the operation to King George VI and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. After Operation ""Dynamo"""
"Operation Bigamy Operation Bigamy ""a.k.a. Operation Snowdrop"" was a raid during the Second World War by the Special Air Service in September 1942 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel David Stirling and supported by the Long Range Desert Group. The plan was to destroy the harbour and storage facilities at Benghazi and raid the airfield at Benina in Libya in coordination with the RAF. The raid was part of a deception plan for Operation Agreement, the much larger raid on Tobruk. The plan involved a ""gruelling journey around the southern edge of the Great Sand Sea"" but ended in failure."
"carrying about 400 evacuees each, along the way knocking out a German tank and shooting up two German troop columns. ""Venomous"" and ""Wild Swan"" then escorted the damaged ""Venetia"" to Dover. On 26 May 1940, ""Venomous"" began operations in support of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied personnel from the beachhead around Dunkirk, France. She made two trips on 31 May 1940, carrying 670 troops from De Panne, Belgium and Bray-Dunes, France, on the first one and 408 troops from the pier at Dunkirk on the second. She transported 630 troops on 2 June 1940, 957 more on 3 June,"
"Combined Operations Headquarters because they encouraged the Germans to reinforce their positions which, in the longer term, could be disadvantageous to the Allies. Operation Manacle Operation Manacle was the name given to a series of British Commando raids during the Second World War. The raids were conducted by Layforce II and ""ad hoc"" formation formed by three troops from No. 4 Commando Their objectives were to take out German strong-points and to conduct reconnaissance, on the coastline of France. They were unofficially known as the ""Menday Force"" named after the commander of Layforce II. No.4 Commando participated in Manacle 5"
"medieval labyrinth of tunnels beneath Dover Castle had been built originally as part of the defensive system of the approaches to England, extended over the centuries and further excavated and reinforced during World Wars I and II, until it was capable of accommodating large parts of the secret defence systems protecting the British Isles. On 26 May 1940 it became the headquarters under Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay of “Operation Dynamo”, from which the rescue and evacuation of up to 338,000 troops from France was directed. In Stockport, six miles south of Manchester, four sets of underground air raid shelter tunnels"
"recommissioned to attend the Royal Review of the Reserve Fleet in Weymouth Bay. At the outbreak of war ""Wakeful"" was assigned to convoy escort duty with the 17th Destroyer Flotilla, which was part of the Western Approaches Command. ""Wakeful"" was selected to support Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk, on 26 May 1940. On 27 May 1940 ""Wakeful"" embarked 631 Allied troops. While returning them to Dover ""Wakeful"" came under air attack and received minor damage below the waterline. Despite the near miss ""Wakeful"" returned to Dunkirk to continue the evacuation, embarking 640 Allied troops on 28"
"from Åndalsnes on the night of 1/2 May, with ""Calcutta"" embarking 756 officers and men. At the end of May 1940, ""Calcutta"" took part in Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. She evacuated 656 troops on the night of 27/28 May 1940, when she operated off La Panne, and a further 1,200 troops on the night of 28/29 May. ""Calcutta"" again operated off Dunkirk on the night of 31 May/1 June, and was slightly damaged by near-misses by German bombs on 2 June. Following the completion of the evacuation from Dunkirk, British Forces continued to"