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[Tim Lovelock]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Thank you Colin on the spring steel.

I will Hijack you thread just a little:
From: The Sands Of Dunkirk by Richard Collier 1961.
Page 265
Facts about DunKirk.
Gort's army brought back:
322 guns (artillery pieces?)
4,739 vehicles
533 motor cycles
32,303 tons of ammo
33,060 tons of stores
1,071 tons of petrol

What was lost /left behind:
2,090.000 british pounds.
416,940 tons of stores,
164,929 tons of petrol,
76,097 tons of ammo,
2,472 field guns,
20,548 motor cycles,
and lastly, 63,879 vehicles.

Over nine days 366,162 men were taken home.
68,111 were killed, wounded, or taken prisoner.
They lost 109 fighters and 177 other aircraft.

The author did years of research for this book (he interviewed 1070 eye witnesses, with details on each) He said that no one man could present truthfully the mammoth nine day exodus that involved countless million men and women.

I find it hard to imagine.

These are the apparent tank losses,
331 VI light tanks
77 Matilda 1's
23 Matilda 2's
184 Cruiser tanks

It's amazing the English could field anything but a cricket team after such horrendous losses.
And what a bonus for the Germans, I'd read once that up to the end of the war, most of their troops were moved either on foot or on horse back.
Cheers Tim