People give way too much distain to the French, they may not have had good leadership at the top or a single brain in the officer corps that wasn’t tied up doing paperwork or outside due to policitical reasons but damn some of them were lions worthy of the grande armee in ww2
Von_Uber on
>The French soldiers at Dunkirk held the perimeter sacrificing their lives for the Brits
And 100k French troops who were evacuated. It wasn’t just the British.
Lovablemiranda03 on
30,000 French soldiers stayed behind so 330,000 allies could leave. That’s not a retreat, that’s a legendary rearguard action.
PretendAd1963 on
Action of the French troops has saved the entire British Expeditionary Force, allowing Churchill use those force to resist the German and Italian threat in North Africa.
FrenchieB014 on
At tad bit of a dishonest statement
Even if the totality of the B.E.F safety is widely due to a great sacrifice by the heroism of 35.000 French soldiers and the French navy (which is often omnited despite playing a massive role)
2.000 British soldiers died during the evacuation not only that but the British navy suffered a lot while transporting allies soldier not to mention the important role of the R.A.F who avoided a slaughter.
So it’s a bit dishonest to just say that the British only retreated
Ninjalion2000 on
Why did the allies keep retreating? If they didn’t retreat all the way to the water they wouldn’t have been in this predicament.
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People give way too much distain to the French, they may not have had good leadership at the top or a single brain in the officer corps that wasn’t tied up doing paperwork or outside due to policitical reasons but damn some of them were lions worthy of the grande armee in ww2
>The French soldiers at Dunkirk held the perimeter sacrificing their lives for the Brits
And 100k French troops who were evacuated. It wasn’t just the British.
30,000 French soldiers stayed behind so 330,000 allies could leave. That’s not a retreat, that’s a legendary rearguard action.
Action of the French troops has saved the entire British Expeditionary Force, allowing Churchill use those force to resist the German and Italian threat in North Africa.
At tad bit of a dishonest statement
Even if the totality of the B.E.F safety is widely due to a great sacrifice by the heroism of 35.000 French soldiers and the French navy (which is often omnited despite playing a massive role)
2.000 British soldiers died during the evacuation not only that but the British navy suffered a lot while transporting allies soldier not to mention the important role of the R.A.F who avoided a slaughter.
So it’s a bit dishonest to just say that the British only retreated
Why did the allies keep retreating? If they didn’t retreat all the way to the water they wouldn’t have been in this predicament.
Is not like Germany didn’t really push?