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Jan 04, 2018jimg2000 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
One of those films that succeed to tell the story and captivate viewers through sights and sound with only a few sound bites from the film makers. As was pointed out by some reviewers, could have tricked up numerically the hundreds of thousands of soldiers like sitting ducks on land and pleasure boats converging into a flotilla at sea. However, understand that it is historically accurate that only a few Royal Air Force planes were dogfighting the Luftwaffe in the air ... but per wiki, still more than a hundred allied fighter planes were lost: B. H. Liddell Hart wrote that Fighter Command lost 106 aircraft over Dunkirk and the Luftwaffe lost about 135, some of which were shot down by the French Navy and the Royal Navy. MacDonald wrote in 1986 that the British losses were 177 aircraft and German losses 240.