Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture

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Allied planners had hoped to check the Germans at the Dyle Line—a defensive line that ran from Antwerp south to the French frontier, north of Sedan—but by May 16 Gamelin had determined that such a stand was impracticable. In the face of such a coordinated strategy, superior air power and highly mobile ground forces supported by panzer tanks, all three countries would succumb quickly: The Germans occupied Luxembourg on May 10, the Netherlands on May 14 and Belgium by the end of the month.

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As the original heavy wool fabric had not been produced since 1940, it was made from scratch, tailored for the main cast and over a thousand extras. Dawson evades gunfire from an enemy fighter, using a technique taught by his deceased elder son, a pilot lost at the start of the war. Director Christopher Nolan conceived the film in the mid-1990s, [16] when he and his future wife Emma Thomas sailed across the English Channel, following the path of many small boats in the Dunkirk evacuation. As usual, I'd have loved more maps - maybe one for each man's story to help with following their stories, but overall this was a a vivid and personal account of the evacuation with just enough information on the overall military situation to make a fascinating account of the evacuation.When, on May 15, French commander-in-chief Maurice Gamelin received an alarming report that the Germans were crossing the Aisne between Rethel and Laon, he told the government that he had no reserves between that sector and Paris and could not guarantee the security of the capital for more than a day. The real Spitfires were provided by the Imperial War Museum Duxford, [17] and owner Dan Friedkin piloted the one that was filmed landing on the beach in Dunkirk. From May 26 to June 4, 1940, the initiative aimed to evacuate hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops trapped and surrounded by German forces in the French coastal town of Dunkirk.

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The operation became known as the “ Miracle of Dunkirk” due to the scale and success of the evacuation, defying initial expectations. He served numerous regimental appointments until selected to command the 10th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (10 PARA). Sound designer Richard King sent two sound mixers to audio record the Spitfires at the Imperial War Museum Duxford using twenty-four microphones.

Operation Dynamo involved the coordinated effort of the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force (RAF), and a flotilla of civilian boats. To minimise the need for computer-generated imagery (CGI), cardboard cut-out props of soldiers and military vehicles created the illusion of a large army.

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