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Good articleDunkirk evacuation has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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September 29, 2013Good article nomineeListed
On this day...Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on June 3, 2007, May 26, 2011, May 26, 2015, May 26, 2017, May 26, 2019, and May 26, 2022.

Infobox "result"

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Editors of this article may wish to know that that the way the parameter "result" has been completed in the infobox for this article ("Allied retreat") has been mentioned in Template talk:Infobox military conflict#rules for Result parameter.

For the record, I entirely support the way the result is portrayed in the infobox in this article - however it appears to me that this does not fit the rules for the infobox template.ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 22:32, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Watch WWII road to victory

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Watch WWII road to victory 2603:6000:DE00:9B:68DE:3C2E:4434:F423 (talk) 05:42, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comment, but why? At the top of the page you will see it says This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Dunkirk evacuation article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. so I am wondering if this is a suggestion for improvement and if so how it works, please? Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 11:18, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What can be considered as logistics failures as depicted in the film?What should have been done

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None 49.150.185.122 (talk) 01:11, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Churchill

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The article fails to note, as people always do fail to note, that, immediately after telling the House that 'Wars are not won by evacuations,' Churchill added, 'But there was a victory inside this deliverance, which should be noted. It was gained by the Air Force. Many of our soldiers coming back have not seen the Air Force at work; they saw only the bombers that escaped its protective attack. They underrate its achievements. I have heard much talk of this; that is why I go out of my way to say this. I will tell you about it.' https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/yourcountry/collections/churchillexhibition/churchill-the-orator/fight-on-the-beaches/ Most of the facts and figures he went on to give are now known to be wrong, but he was correct on the whole. The Luftwaffe attempted to interdict the evacuation and failed. It was also the first time that the Germans encountered Spitfires (previously held in reserve), which they clearly did not like much. Churchill remarked, 'The great French Army was very largely, for the time being, cast back and disturbed by the onrush of a few thousands of armoured vehicles. May it not also be that the cause of civilisation itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen?' In the next few months, this proved prophetic, leading to his speech on 'The Few' on 20 August. Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:18, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]