1. The Evacuation At Dunkirk
As the Germans take H, B, L, D, N and now France, British and Canadian soldiers are forced to retreat from the shores of northern France at Dunkirk

2. Dunkirk – 20 miles across the English Channel from Ramsgate

3. Surrounded at Dunkirk – the only way out is by sea

4. Some soldiers stood in the water for hours waiting to get on a ship

5. Some soldiers could get to the ships in small boats

6. On the beaches the engineer units built jetties out of abandoned trucks so that troops could clamber out to the boats. Huge lines were formed on the beaches when ships were available for embarkation.

7. The small boats negotiated the shallow waters off La Panne on the French-Belgian border, where no deep draught ships could approach and extracted the brave exhausted British Expeditionary Force, the French Army and a few thousand troops of the Belgian Army from the beaches of Dunkirk.

8. Some of the “Little Ships”

9. It was originally hoped that up to 45,000 men might be rescued
It was originally hoped that up to 45,000 men might be rescued. The actual total came to 338,226 men. The Royal Navy lost six destroyers, 24 small warships. Over 70 of the "Little ships" were lost too.
Poem about the Sarah P - one of the 700 private boats that joined the rescue
“Will came back from school that day …”

10. Years of Crisis
5 Main Battle Areas
1940 to 1942

11. Battle of Britain – “We Will Never Surrender” - WC

12. The German Luftwaffe

13. The British RAF, joined by 80 Canadian pilots

14. Air raid sirens, black outs, staying underground, and fighting fires on the ground

15. Winston Churchill says thank you to the RAF

16. War on the Eastern Front – “Operation Barbarossa”

17. Soviet Soldiers

18. Japan Attacks Pearl Harbour

20. Over half of the US naval fleet was sunk in two hours

21. Bombing the Naval Base/ Communications Centre

22. Japanese Empire

23. Battle of the Atlantic

24. An Allied tanker torpedoed by a German U-boat

26. Battle of the Atlantic

27. The Allies Try to Land in France at Dieppe

28. 5/6 of the soldiers sent are Canadians (5000 out of 6100)

29. Disaster at Dieppe

30. Tanks get stuck in the pebble beach

31. The Germans are ready and are shooting from the cliffs

32. Less than ½ of the Canadians can return to the retreating ships