Chieftain Talks: Operation Dynamo 

Eustace , You are Correct . He Does a great Job giving us the important little details . He did not say May 14th but he covered the request for information . Please look at one of his Vids where he talks to a crowd Vs just talking to the camera . He has what it takes !

Donnie Montoya well history channel these days is nothing but a bunch of retarded duck dynasty wannabe reality tv bullshit the channel used to be good, then it got bad so they made History 2 channel which was ok for a time but then they ruined that by turning it into viceland and then showing forgettable and boring crap trying to copy travel channel but failing miserably, and after that they started showing "gaycation" (which is somehow as show) 24/7

@@dust1077 History Channel used to partner up with the Smithsonian Institution, who actually owns most of the video archives of historical footage their shows used. Like 75% of their old content wouldn't be possible without it. The Smithsonian Institution would not renew ties with History Channel, so the big H's executives looked for something to fill out the hours since they only had enough in-house production to fill a quarter of the time. Then they found the filler material actually got better ratings than history and the rest is history.

bandholm I heard from The Mighty Jingles video that RAF decided to intercept Luftwaffe far from Dunkirk to prevent them getting into Dunkirk in the first place. The downside is that aircraft that managed to slip past means that they are free from RAF and the BEF never seen RAF actually helping them.

Yeah, its a shame though, because the RAF lost over 100 fighters trying to intercept the Luftwaffe bombers before they actually reached the beach. Intercepting a bomber over the target area is a bit too late from the targets point of view! Irony is that though the troops never saw the RAF, had the RAF not been flying further inland the bombing would have been much worse....

+bandholm The RAF kept the Luftwaffe largely away from the Dunkirk pocket forming a CAP. The odd planes did get through. Soldiers on the beaches never saw many RAF planes as they were on the outer perimeters. More Luftwaffe planes were shot down than RAF.

I don't really understand why you feel the need to tell me this... Given that nothing I said hinted to that the RAF didn't do their job.

I mean it's not meant specifically for you, it's to complete your comment. You clearly stated that "RAF was hated by the survivor of Operation Dynamo", some people wonder why they hate and thought "RAF clearly did something so why they hate them?". We just answer their question.

Operation: "Fukkin leg it, lads!"

Dark Tronics it's released but not in the u.s. and i live in the u.s........ :(

Took much of it into service, they actually relied on captured equipment to supply their own forces and equip the units. The Germans used Polish and Czechoslovakian equipment in France, French and British equipment was also used in Russia.

Captured British army battledress was given to the U-Boat crews.

@@kemlokemlo VERY interesting. Thank you.

Agreed. Need to use an audio compressor. Pretty standard piece of audio gear.

Geoff Watson such as America.

yes we are responsible for a lot, fresh water,sewers,anti biotics, the modern world, if you dont like whitey give up all the stuff we ve invented,see how far you get, wood ,coal burning stoves, whitey, canvas to live under,whitey, see where this is going.

in reply to ''the europeans have a lot to answer for'' as you can tell my tongue was firmly in my cheek,

So does the British Empire...

NikonGuy - Yeah, what has the British Empire ever done for us? Er - the rule of law? Er - the railways? Er - fresh water? Er - trade? Er - the English language? Er - after Waterloo, 99 years of peace? "Aww, *PEACE* ? - Shut Up!

Many did as the fighting continued for almost 2 weeks. There were further evacuations further along the coast. During these the liner Lancastria was sunk by aircraft with the loss of over 4000 lives. The number is only estimated and it could be many more because no records of the number boarding could be made. For obvious reasons the British public was not told of the loss until after the war.

freebeerfordworkers >> I think Churchill addresses the Lancastria in “Their Finest Hour”. He thought there was enough bad news that day & then he ‘forgot’ to release the news subsequently. He probably did forget... Another good story is one of RMS Titanic’s surviving officers took his yacht across...I think his name was Lightoller.

@@jaybee9269 This is a fascinating piece of trivia from the Dunkirk period. Lightoller was the Titanic's second officer and the most senior member of the crew to survive the sinking in 1912. He joined the Royal Navy during WWI and was alleged to have had German survivors of a sunken u-boat shot in the water due to his distaste for submarine warfare in general. After the war he ran a boatyard and owned a motor yacht; when the Dunkirk fiasco was under way, he was one of them people who began organizing the "little ships" to start going over and rescuing people, and his yacht is preserved at a museum somewhere now. The civilian boat captain in the Nolan movie is heavily inspired by him but for whatever reason they didn't use the same name. In any event, the dude was pretty hardcore, even for that time period.

MalikCarr >> Thanks for the information, I enjoyed it! There was a great & memorable image in William Manchester/Paul Reid’s book ‘The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm’; the 3rd volume of Manchester’s Churchill biography. There was described the burning tank farm at Dunkirk and as dusk took hold there appeared many tiny lights from the Tommies’ cigarettes...you can easily imagine the thousands of them queued up on the beach, calmly smoking as they contemptuously ignored the Luftwaffe...I wished I was an artist!

@@MalikCarr VERY interesting. Thank you VERY much.