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Several instances of
evacuations (including both
emergency evacuations and
forced migrations) occurred during and after
World War II.
Civilian emergency evacuations
-
Operation Dynamo, British evacuation of the
British Expeditionary Force from
Dunkirk,
France, 1940
[1]
-
Operation Aerial, British evacuation of Allied forces from Western France, 1940
[2]
-
Operation Cycle, British evacuation of the
Beauman Division of
Le Havre, France, 1940
[3]
-
Operation Alphabet, British evacuation of Allied forces from
Narvik,
Norway, 1940
- Evacuations of Commonwealth forces from
Greece and
Crete during the
Battle of Greece, 1941
- Evacuation for
Odessa during the
Siege of Odessa
- Evacuation from Crimea during the
Crimea Campaign
- Evacuations during the
Siege of Leningrad
-
Operation Ke, Japanese evacuation from Guadalcanal, Jan-Feb 1943
- Japanese evacuation from
Kiska, July 1943
-
Allied invasion of Sicily, Axis evacuation order to the
Royal Italian Army over the
Strait of Messina to Italy, 1943
-
Operation Hannibal, German evacuation of the
Wehrmacht from
East Prussia in advance of the Red Army, 1945
-
Evacuation of Tallinn
- Evacuation of industries from western USSR to the
Urals
- Evacuation of industries from western USSR to
Central Asia
- Evacuation of industries from western USSR to
Kazakhstan
- Evacuation of industries from western USSR to the
Caucasus