Source B is another primary source, The evidence of this source, proves that there was bombing at Dunkirk, he describes this in a way that sounds like a poem, the beaches and boats were under heavy attack by the German planes, who put to all lengths do take out as many British expeditionary forces, a French solders as possible.
The boat he was in proves that there were shallow waters so it was impossible for the larger boats to get to ashore, so they had to detach smaller ships to bring men back to the large ships like destroyers.
Source C is a change in morale form what we read in the earlier sources, it is another first hand account, he describes the bravery of one RASC Sergeant, it describes how after most of his men were killed, he drove off the German planes with a Bren machine gun, this source shows that by this stage they did have weapons and ammunition left, this source seems at an impression to be a little over exaggerated, who this was by also proves that they bring in ships form all over England that could sail to Dunkirk.
These sources are useful in some ways, they prove the fact that The Battle Of Dunkirk was a very brutal, unorganised, undisciplined, evacuation, all of these sources were made my navy or able seamen, who survived the heavy bombing of the beach’s and boats, in my opinion this was a bad success, by which I mean that it was lucky.
If the Germans hadn’t stopped for 2 days then this may never have happened.
From the beginning of the sources it sounded like it was totally unorganised but then near to the end and from my own knowledge and information, that it got more organised and better tactics were put into plan, i.e. they found 2 large wave breakers that reached far out into the sea, where they could bring up large boats, this proved more affective and quicker of getting men off, one of them was bombed but not beyond use they managed to get about 1000 off every hour or so.
From my own research I have got a lot of information, the boats that were used during the evacuation ranged from larger ships like, Destroyers and cargo boats, To small little boats like fishing boats, yachts, pleasure steamers and holiday boats.
From Britain’s point of view Dunkirk was a great success, but it had its bad side, during the campaign 5,000 men died, but the amount that were saved were as followed:
By May 30/31 some 80,000 troops had been rescued, and eventfully by the end of the evacuation, 212,000 British officers and men were rescued, 113,000 allied troops mainly French, and 13,000 wounded!
By the end, many of the French solders were left behind and captured, and made POW’s.
