TNA ADM 234 360

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CONTENTS
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Introduction
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CHAPTER I
Preliminary Events, 10th to 18th May, 1940
Germany invades Holland and Belgium
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Allies reach River Dyle
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German thrust on French 9th Army front
1
Occupation of Walcheren and Zuid Beveland imminent
2
Germans cross Meuse
2
Dutch Army surrenders
2
Allies withdraw to River Escaut
2
French 9th Army front broken
3
Allied rail communications severed
3
CHAPTER II
The week before Operation "Dynamo", 19th to 25th May, 1940
Compulsory withdrawal of B.E.F. foreseen
4
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R.A.F. Component begins return to England
4
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Vice-Admiral Dover, represented at War Office Conference
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Channel ports the German objective
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Gerneral Weygand directing Allied operations
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R.A.F. Component to set up rear H.Q. at Hawkinge
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Naval Staff at Dover considers large scale evacuation
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Provision of small craft considered
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Counter-attack south of Arras
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Germans approach Boulogne
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Organisation of the canal line
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Emergency evacuation again considered at the War Office
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Canal line occupied
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Boulogne cut off, Calais threatened
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"The Operation will be known as 'Dynamo' "
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Enemy within 20 miles of Dunkirk
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Calais cut off
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