Chieftain Talks: Operation Dynamo

The miracle of Dunkirk formed the backdrop of our partnership with Warner Bros. for Christopher Nolan’s World War II action thriller, DUNKIRK.
"Operation Dynamo" is the third and final in a series of talks from Nicholas “The Chieftain” Moran, covering the infamous evacuation at Dunkirk. In this installment, the Chieftain discusses the history of Operation Dynamo and the courageous mission to evacuate 338,000 men from the beaches of Dunkirk.
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[@genericpersonx333]

Mr. Moran, I happen to have read History at university and I salute you for your excellent work for the company as a historian. You are a reminder that soldiers are not lacking in the intellectual arts and indeed often excel in them. To anyone who picks nits with Mr. Moran's work, please bear in mind that no man is an island unto himself but damn if the Chieftain is not darned close to pulling it off.

[@markcantemail8018]

Eustace , You are Correct . He Does a great Job giving us the important little details . He did not say May 14th but he covered the request for information . Please look at one of his Vids where he talks to a crowd Vs just talking to the camera . He has what it takes !

[@mochithepooh5368]

Salute to all person who involved in this operation. Especially to the Flotilla crew and soldier who bravely hold the perimeter.

[@chrisgibson5267]

Really enjoyed the talks. My Irish grandfather joined the 8th Belfast Heavy AA Regiment after it returned from Dunkirk. He went with the regiment and served through the Burma campaign.

[@donniemontoya9300]

I learn more from a video game than an hour of history channel.

[@dust1077]

Donnie Montoya well history channel these days is nothing but a bunch of retarded duck dynasty wannabe reality tv bullshit the channel used to be good, then it got bad so they made History 2 channel which was ok for a time but then they ruined that by turning it into viceland and then showing forgettable and boring crap trying to copy travel channel but failing miserably, and after that they started showing "gaycation" (which is somehow as show) 24/7

[@alex_zetsu]

@@dust1077 History Channel used to partner up with the Smithsonian Institution, who actually owns most of the video archives of historical footage their shows used. Like 75% of their old content wouldn't be possible without it. The Smithsonian Institution would not renew ties with History Channel, so the big H's executives looked for something to fill out the hours since they only had enough in-house production to fill a quarter of the time. Then they found the filler material actually got better ratings than history and the rest is history.

[@TheGixernutter]

Again, another Superlative delivery from this incredible Historian and wonderful storyteller.

[@jamesbrowne6351]

Clearly a product of detailed research. Well done.

[@MrBandholm]

I remember a book on the fall of France, written by a historian, that had been a private and evacuated of the beach (later to return at Sword beach). He wrote that the general feeling among the men were, when they meet the RN personel, that finally they had meet someone that actually knew what was going on, and how to solve the problems... That seeing the RN officers and sailors, comforted the troops and calmed the stress that they were all feeling. He later said, that a number of the troops evacuated of the beach, after coming home (but before the battle of Britain), that British air crews and RAF personel were hated, and on a fair number of occasions beaten up, by soldiers that had felt betrayed by the lack of air cover.

[@mochithepooh5368]

bandholm I heard from The Mighty Jingles video that RAF decided to intercept Luftwaffe far from Dunkirk to prevent them getting into Dunkirk in the first place. The downside is that aircraft that managed to slip past means that they are free from RAF and the BEF never seen RAF actually helping them.

[@alganhar1]

Yeah, its a shame though, because the RAF lost over 100 fighters trying to intercept the Luftwaffe bombers before they actually reached the beach. Intercepting a bomber over the target area is a bit too late from the targets point of view! Irony is that though the troops never saw the RAF, had the RAF not been flying further inland the bombing would have been much worse....

[@johnburns4017]

+bandholm The RAF kept the Luftwaffe largely away from the Dunkirk pocket forming a CAP. The odd planes did get through. Soldiers on the beaches never saw many RAF planes as they were on the outer perimeters. More Luftwaffe planes were shot down than RAF.

[@MrBandholm]

I don't really understand why you feel the need to tell me this... Given that nothing I said hinted to that the RAF didn't do their job.

[@mochithepooh5368]

I mean it's not meant specifically for you, it's to complete your comment. You clearly stated that "RAF was hated by the survivor of Operation Dynamo", some people wonder why they hate and thought "RAF clearly did something so why they hate them?". We just answer their question.

[@CptnCleator]

errata: at 13:30 you mention SS Fenella as a 'trawler', she was actually another packet steamer, one of three from the IoMSP lost that day

[@adamskinner5868]

I love these historical lecture things by the Chieftain n Wargaming(WG), it makes the money I've paid WG over the years better value. This one on the naval aspect of Dunkirk was great, a side of the story I knew little about and which I found really interesting. These vid's are well researched, entertaining and professional, thanks Chieftain, thanks WG, please keep making more, many many more

[@MrSdmckenna]

Your best video! Learned a lot.

[@Sean_Coyne]

My uncle got off almost at the last. Meanwhile my mother was working twenty hour shifts as a theatre nurse assisting the surgeons. Desperate times.

[@pierrelambert446]

Nice presentation, did you know that Charles Lightoller second in command on the titanic, use his yacht the Sundance and evacuate 130 British troops.

[@GarretLarson]

Love these!

[@garyneilson1833]

Enjoyed this series but what don't realise is Allied troops were still fighting further west and the 51st Highland Division was captured at St Valery. There were also men taken off beaches further west of Dunkirk

[@brendaproffitt1011]

Incredible video and impressive information on this video too..Thank you so much..

[@neilgriffiths6427]

Great vid, nice to hear the real facts of the evacuation - which are every bit as amazing as the film, they didn't need to alter things at all.

[@majgijoe]

I think the ground operation name was Operation: GTFO.

[@robloxdude19]

Operation: "Fukkin leg it, lads!"

[@scroggins100]

Super to camera well done.

[@demos113]

Wonderful. :-)

[@darktronics9901]

When is world of warships blitz gonna be released

[@dust1077]

Dark Tronics it's released but not in the u.s. and i live in the u.s........ :(

[@Dalroi1]

Perhaps use a better microphone next time, or better balancing. The difference between the loud and quiet parts of the vocals is quite significant, so the choice seems to be to have it at a level where you can hear the quietest parts but have the loud parts shouting at you, or adjust it for most of the speech but then miss the words spoken when he drops his voice right down for the end of some sentences. Even the auto-captioner gets confused by these ( try it out ). It's a shame, because what I'm hearing is very good ( as always, from Mr Moran ) , but the audio engineering could have been done better.

[@OuellettePhil]

Agreed. Need to use an audio compressor. Pretty standard piece of audio gear.

[@andyc3088]

The BEF did not return to France 4 years later but returned to France on the 7th June 1940, 3 days later

[@alex_zetsu]

Wait if the British didn't expect the harbor to be useful and they didn't know about the mole, why did they risk their ships in a rescue that shouldn't work? Based on what Ramsey knew at that time, there wouldn't be a way to load men onto the boats. If the situation in Dunkirk was what he thought, his ships would go up to the area, unable to enter the shallow waters, a landing craft might come up to the beach and load a few dozen men, and then come back to Britain with less than 100 evacuees per ship. Did he just assume that the engineers in the BEF might rig something up?

[@Halinspark]

I wanna use Błyskawica in the WoWs Operation Dynamo now. I dont care that her AA is overpowered.

[@Tommytuf]

Good vid

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

'Many men, few boats.' Sounds like a meme. . . .

[@larsmathiesen8999]

Another grand video :) Could we get an aftermath about what the Germans did with the captured equipment please ?

[@chazt8604]

Took much of it into service, they actually relied on captured equipment to supply their own forces and equip the units. The Germans used Polish and Czechoslovakian equipment in France, French and British equipment was also used in Russia.

[@kemlokemlo]

Captured British army battledress was given to the U-Boat crews.

[@ulrikschackmeyer848]

@@kemlokemlo VERY interesting. Thank you.

[@ronkrishka5611]

The word is "Armada" not "Armato" in the KZbin ads. You may want to make some changes in your R&D department.

[@dust1077]

when will World Of Warships Blitz be available in the u.s. ??? like if you want world of warships blitz to be available for mobile in the u.s.

[@stevenhzoll7057]

I hope the audio will improve as this series continues.

[@guy7555]

do you bring one time dutch ship in the game

[@DeliveryMcGee]

I always get emotional when I read/hear about Dunkirk. Every damn thing that could float in the southern half of the country was put into the effort to save the troops, mostly voluntarily. And you know they were goddamn OUT FOR REVENGE when they went back in '44 (which was also an everything-that-floats situation, but substantially larger things. Like all the older battleships that were too slow to zoom around protecting carriers in the Pacific.)

[@king_bling7373]

Have you tried reading bedtime stories too?

[@stephaniewilson3955]

Dover Castle was built to impress royal visitors to these islands after King Henry II was embarrassed by having nowhere suitable to host the King of France.

[@MrChiron12]

noice

[@exildresdner83]

the only what i unterstand is dynamo . and what i sag is ... Dresden... Dynamo Dresden

[@farmerned6]

And following the French surrender the majority of the rescued French troops went back to France and took no further part in the war?

[@jaybee9269]

freebeerfordworkers >> I think Churchill addresses the Lancastria in “Their Finest Hour”. He thought there was enough bad news that day & then he ‘forgot’ to release the news subsequently. He probably did forget... Another good story is one of RMS Titanic’s surviving officers took his yacht across...I think his name was Lightoller.

[@MalikCarr]

@@jaybee9269 This is a fascinating piece of trivia from the Dunkirk period. Lightoller was the Titanic's second officer and the most senior member of the crew to survive the sinking in 1912. He joined the Royal Navy during WWI and was alleged to have had German survivors of a sunken u-boat shot in the water due to his distaste for submarine warfare in general. After the war he ran a boatyard and owned a motor yacht; when the Dunkirk fiasco was under way, he was one of them people who began organizing the "little ships" to start going over and rescuing people, and his yacht is preserved at a museum somewhere now. The civilian boat captain in the Nolan movie is heavily inspired by him but for whatever reason they didn't use the same name. In any event, the dude was pretty hardcore, even for that time period.

[@jaybee9269]

MalikCarr >> Thanks for the information, I enjoyed it! There was a great & memorable image in William Manchester/Paul Reid’s book ‘The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm’; the 3rd volume of Manchester’s Churchill biography. There was described the burning tank farm at Dunkirk and as dusk took hold there appeared many tiny lights from the Tommies’ cigarettes...you can easily imagine the thousands of them queued up on the beach, calmly smoking as they contemptuously ignored the Luftwaffe...I wished I was an artist!

[@ulrikschackmeyer848]

@@MalikCarr VERY interesting. Thank you VERY much.

[@geoffwatson8785]

The Europeans have a lot answer for!

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

Geoff Watson such as America.

[@phillipburke2709]

yes we are responsible for a lot, fresh water,sewers,anti biotics, the modern world, if you dont like whitey give up all the stuff we ve invented,see how far you get, wood ,coal burning stoves, whitey, canvas to live under,whitey, see where this is going.

[@phillipburke2709]

in reply to ''the europeans have a lot to answer for'' as you can tell my tongue was firmly in my cheek,

[@K1NKYG4M3R]

So does the British Empire...

[@neilgriffiths6427]

NikonGuy - Yeah, what has the British Empire ever done for us? Er - the rule of law? Er - the railways? Er - fresh water? Er - trade? Er - the English language? Er - after Waterloo, 99 years of peace? "Aww, *PEACE* ? - Shut Up!