is it true that at dunkirk 40% of the French army was lost and had 80% of their equipment missing?

Answer 1

De Witte gives a correct answer.
Some other information : The best of the French troops were driven together with the UK-troops at Dunkirk because that the Germans were driving behind the front lines from Sedan to the coast.
80 % of the equipment was missing. Seems logic because all heavy material had to stay behind. This is the same for the British.
Another fact : the French troops that had been ordered to do the delaying fighing did a courageous job till the bitter end (together with some British units).
Much of the evacuated troops were immediatly send back to France to be re-equiped and fight on. Later on almost all these troops had to surrender when France surrendered. Few could make it back to the UK to fight on.

Answer 2

That is true. This has caused bad feeling between britain and France for many years. When the ships at Dunkirk were taking the british troops off the beaches, it was asked why were we not also evacuating the Frech troops, but no answer was ever given. The french people have always felt that we betrayed them for this. The British Army did not suffer the casualtys that the French Army did, but left behind every bit of equipment that they had brought with them.That is when Britain was at its most vunerable to Invasion by German troops. We had an Army, but no equipment.

Answer 3

Lets get some facts straight here because the previous post was nonsense. Many thousands of French troops WERE INDEED evacuated from Dunkirk, but saying that a large number were also left behind (can't remember the exact figures). The evacuation at Dunkirk was an amazing feat but lets have some common sense here. Britain would obviously evacuate it's own troops first as any other country would! You don't really expect the British Government to leave it's own troops behind in order to save French Soldiers first do you, get real!!!!! Do you really think the French would have saved British soldiers first before their own I don't think so!!!!
There was only limited time to evacuate as the Germans were closing in. Britain evacuated as many French Soldiers as it could

Answer 4

in 9 day's 120.000 french troops and 218.226 English troops where saved from the beaches around Dunkirk.
2 french divisions staid behind to cover the retreat of the rest of the troops and they did there job until the bitter end.
This percentage I can't confirm but the french army did indeed loose a lot of men in that battle and the British army had saved there troops but they hadn't almost no material to equip them

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Answer 6

I've not heard these statistics but the fact remains that Dunkirk was a humiliating defeat for the British. It was also a fine example of British valour whereby scores of fishermen and anyone who owned a boat joined in this incredible evacuatiom.The French are not in a position to criticise - they had already been invaded, without too much oppositon and it is unlikely that they will forgive us for liberating them C'est la vie.

Answer 7

Long before Dunkirk the French had thrown in the towel. French resistance to the german advance was non existant. It was the British who fought the valiant rearguard action, without a single frog in sight, stopping jerry in their tracks enabling the Dunkirk evacuation.

Answer 8

I've never read those statistics myself but it wouldn't surprise me if its was true

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

Yes, I have heard this.