During Operation Dynamo — the evacuation of 330, 000 BEF and French troops to Britain — Montgomery assumed command of the II Corps.

Hermann Göring had promised the Luftwaffe would complete the destruction of the encircled armies, but aerial operations did not prevent the evacuation of the majority of Allied troops ( which the British named Operation Dynamo ); some 330, 000 French and British were saved.

* Dunkirk evacuation ( Operation Dynamo ), the evacuation of 338, 226 British and French troops during that battle

* Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo – A post-blog of the Battle of Britain 1940

Their sacrifice may have helped Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied forces at Dunkirk, as 10th Panzer would certainly have been involved on the Dunkirk perimeter had it not been busy at Calais.

The British evacuation of Dunkirk through the English Channel was codenamed Operation Dynamo.

Around the world Dutch naval units were responsible for transporting troop, for example during Operation Dynamo in Dunkirk and on D-Day, they escorted convoys and attacked enemy targets.

* Operation Dynamo, the World War II mass evacuation of Allied soldiers from Dunkirk

During Operation Dynamo, 330, 000 allied units had retreated from France.

The Dunkirk evacuation, commonly known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo by the British, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and the early hours of 4 June 1940, because the British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk in the Second World War.

Cycle was preceded by the better known Operation Dynamo, the rescue of 338, 226 British and French soldiers from Dunkirk from 26 May to 4 June, and followed by Operation Ariel, over 215, 000 soldiers embarking from Cherbourg, St. Malo, and other ports between June 14 and 25.

It followed Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk and Operation Cycle, the evacuation from Le Havre, which finished on 13 June.

Although Operation Dynamo at Dunkirk had evacuated much of the fighting element of the British Expeditionary Force, some combat units from 1st Armoured Division and Beauman Division and more than 150, 000 support and line-of-communication troops had been cut-off to the south by the German “ dash to the sea ”.

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.

To commemorate the seventieth anniversary of her sinking, the starboard anchor of Mona's Queen, an Isle of Man Steam Packet Company vessel lost off Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo on which many seamen from the Port St Mary area served, was raised on 29 May 2010 and subsequently returned to the Isle of Man to form the centrepiece of a permanent memorial.

However, implementation of the legislation proved to be extremely difficult, particularly as the primary focus of the War Office and General Headquarters Home Forces was on Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk between 27 May to 4 June.

After the end of the Battle of France and the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo, much of Britain's war production and effort was channelled into RAF Bomber Command and the strategic bombing offensive against Germany.

During the Second World War the division formed part of the British Expeditionary Force in France until evacuated from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo in June 1940.

On 26 May 1940 it became the headquarters under Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay of “ Operation Dynamo ”, from where the rescue and evacuation of up to 338, 000 troops from France was directed.

After the Norwegian campaign ended, the Corps first commanded most of the armoured reserves preparing to face the proposed German invasion of Britain ( Operation Sea Lion ), while the other corps headquarters which had been evacuated from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo were reorganised.

* May 26-June 4 – Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk evacuation, takes place, as 308, 888 Allied soldiers are evacuated to the United Kingdom from Dunkirk by sea under continuous German air attack.

United States Air Force records show that at least 6, 542 spraying missions took place over the course of Operation Ranch Hand.

Air Force records show at least 6, 542 spraying missions took place over the course of Operation Ranch Hand.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U. S., carriers immediately headed to the Arabian Sea to support Operation Enduring Freedom and took up station, building to a force of three carriers.

In February 1944, Operation Hailstone, one of the most important naval battles of the war, took place at Truk, in which many Japanese support vessels and aircraft were destroyed.

Himmler took over leadership of the RSHA and stepped up the pace of the killing of European Jewry in Aktion Reinhard ( Operation Reinhard ), named in Heydrich's honour.

In 1987, Operation Deepscan took place.

During the primaries, Limbaugh in particular had endorsed a plan to do whatever it took to prolong the Democrats ' nomination by encouraging political conservatives to cross over to the Democrats and voting for the trailing candidate, a plan he calls " Operation Chaos ".

Operation Anaconda took place in early March 2002 in which the United States military and CIA Paramilitary Officers, working with allied Afghan military forces, and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and non-NATO forces attempted to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.

After the brief success of the Kerensky Offensive 1 – 19 July and its disastrous sequel, when Ludendorff's general reserve of six divisions captured Riga, 1 – 5 September 1917 and then in Operation Albion September – October 1917 took the islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga, British and French commanders on the Western Front had to reckon on the German western army being strengthened by reinforcements from the Eastern Front in late 1917.

The regiment took part in Operation Latzides, which was a heroic but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stem the forces of the Italians.

Air Force records show that at least 6, 542 spraying missions took place over the course of Operation Ranch Hand.

Britain's first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941 when, what was then known as II Special Air Service ( some 37 men of 500 trained in No. 2 Commando plus three Italian interpreters ), parachuted into Italy to blow up an aqueduct in a daring raid named Operation Colossus.

Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.

On the evening of July 13, 1943, more than 112 aircraft carrying 1, 856 men and 16 gliders with 77 artillerymen and ten 6 pounder guns, took off from North Africa in Operation Fustian.

In April 1945, Operation Herring, an Italian commando-style airborne drop aimed at disrupting German rear area communications and movement over key areas in Northern Italy, took place.

Operation Repulse, which took place in Bastogne on December 27, 1944, as part of the Battle of the Bulge, glider pilots, although flying directly through enemy fire, were able to land, delivering the badly needed ammunition, gasoline, and medical supplies that enabled defenders against the German offensive to persevere and secure the ultimate victory.

Conducted as a part of Operation Plunder, the operation took place on 24 March 1945 in aid of an attempt by the British 21st Army Group to cross the Rhine River.

The PAP has held an overwhelming majority of seats in the Parliament of Singapore since 1966, when the opposition Barisan Sosialis ( Socialist Front ), a left-wing group that split from PAP in 1961, resigned from Parliament after winning 13 seats following the 1963 state elections, which took place months after a number of their leaders had been arrested in Operation Coldstore based on charges of being communists.

* memorial honoring the Boy Scouts and others who took part in " Operation 1001 " 1966-73, the rebuilding of the town from its devastation in World War II

The next month, 334 B-29s took off to raid on the night of 9 – 10 March ( Operation Meetinghouse ), with 279 of them dropping around 1, 700 tons of bombs.

The only fighting took place in the port of Algiers itself, where in Operation Terminal two British destroyers attempted to land a party of U. S. Rangers directly onto the dock, in order to prevent the French destroying the port facilities and scuttling their ships.

On 6 May, as the culmination of Operation Vulcan, the British took Tunis, and American forces reached Bizerte.

Polish historians like Pospieszalski and Janusz Kutta point to a Nazi top secret false flag Operation Himmler ( which took place on August 31 – September 1 ) and was designed to create an illusion of Polish aggression against Germany.

The Swietokrzyskie Mountains Home Army District fought against the Germans long before Operation Tempest inflicted heavy casualties on the occupying forces and later took part in the final liberation of their towns and cities in January 1945.

At the age of sixteen, he decided to join the United States Marine Corps, a decision that took him to Lebanon, during Operation Blue Bat.