Harry Raffal

Air Power and the Evacuation of Dunkirk (eBook, PDF)

The RAF and Luftwaffe during Operation Dynamo, 26 May - 4 June 1940

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The evacuation of Dunkirk has been immortalised in books, prints and films, narrated as a story of an outnumbered, inexperienced RAF defeating the battle-hardened Luftwaffe and protecting the evacuation. This book revives the historiography by analysing the air operations during the evacuation. Raffal draws from German and English sources, many for the first time in the context of Operation DYNAMO, to argue that both sides suffered a defeat over Dunkirk. . This work examines the resources and tactics of both sides during DYNAMO and challenges the traditional view that the Luftwaffe held the advantage. The success that the Luftwaffe achieved during DYNAMO, including halting daylight evacuations on 1 June, is evaluated and the supporting role of RAF Bomber and Coastal Command is explored in detail for the first time. Concluding that the RAF was not responsible for the Luftwaffe's failure to prevent the evacuation, Raffal demonstrates that the reasons lay elsewhere.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350180468
• Artikelnr.: 62147060

Autorenporträt

Harry Raffal is the Historian based at the Royal Air Force Museum, London, UK. He holds a doctorate from the University of Hull for his thesis on the operations of the RAF and Luftwaffe during the evacuation of Dunkirk. He is an ex-officio Committee member of the RAF Historical Society and the Royal Aeronautical Society, Aeronautical Heritage Group. He has previously published research on the RAF in the Battle of France, and the online development of the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 : The Two Forces
Chapter 2 : The Luftwaffe's Attacks On Dynamo, 29 May and 1 June.
Chapter 3 : German Artillery Fire and the Suspension of Daylight
Evacuations. 105
Chapter 4 : The Luftwaffe's Attacks on Dunkirk Before 29 May
Chapter 5 : The Luftwaffe's Attacks on Dunkirk on 30-31 May
Chapter 6 : Results, Limitations and Potential Of Luftwaffe Night Attacks
and Mine Operations
Chapter 7 : RAF and Luftwaffe Fighter Operations During Dynamo
Chapter 8 : The Operations of Coastal Command and the Fleet Air Arm
Chapter 9 : The Operations of Bomber Command
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix I: Map of The Routes to Dunkirk and the Beaches
Appendix II: List of Ships Mentioned
Appendix III: Glossary
Bibliography
Index