"Which action in World War H, had the code name, ""Operation Dynamo""?"
British Army during the Second World War evacuation Operation Dynamo, began on 26 May; with over 330,000 British and French troops being evacuated by 4 June, and another 220,000 evacuated from other French ports. The majority of the BEF, which had sustained some 68,000 casualties, including 40,000 prisoners and most of the 51st (Highland) Division, was saved, but had to leave much of its equipment behind. However, the British Army's first encounter with the Germans during the Second World War had been in the Norwegian Campaign, following the German invasion on 9 April 1940. The British had responded by sending troops, consisting mainly of Territorials of the
Code name of Japan), the American code name for the attack on the subtropical island of Okinawa in World War II was "Operation Iceberg". The Soviet Union's project to base missiles in Cuba was named "Operation Anadyr" after their closest bomber base to the US (just across the Bering Strait from Nome, Alaska). The names of colors are generally avoided in American practice to avoid confusion with meteorological reporting practices. Britain, in contrast, made deliberately non-meaningful use of them, through the system of rainbow codes. Although German and Italian aircraft were not given code names by their Allied opponents, in 1942, Captain