FC: Dunkirk the movie , History professor comments........

[katchthis]

Pretty good movie. I saw it tonight. Not up there with Saving Private Ryan, but very entertaining.
Not a lot of dialogue or character development, but a largely true to history tale. I haven't read much on Dunkirk and was surprised at the amount of planes ultimately lost on both sides during the battle.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/07/20/what_s_fact_and_what_s_fiction_in_dunkirk.html

 

[Ranger Dan]

Just look at the US airmen who fought and died in the skies over western Europe for two and a half years before foot soldiers landed on Normandy beach.

 

[katchthis]

https://www.brentbaxterbooks.com/the-role-of-the-raf-in-operation-dynamo-the-miracle-of-dunkirk/

 

[CF LION]

Saw it last night. It was OK. It really left me wanting more. Not much was done in the way of portraying the events that led to the troops being pushed to the port of Dunkirk and almost no development of any actual historical figures.

I took my 14 year old son. He really liked it but I had to fill in a lot of blanks for him.

 

[Frabjous]

'I was playing golf on the day the Germans landed.
All our soldiers ran away
All our ships were stranded.
Such were my distress and shame
It nearly put me off my game!'
-English joke from WW 2