Comments by "John Brereton" (@johnbrereton5229) on "Equipment the British Lost at Dunkirk that the Germans Reused" video.

  1. Farage was correct, the British army was ordered to destroy all the equipment that they had to abandon. My father was a driver in the Royal Engineers and had to destroy the Morris commercial truck that he had meticulously cared for by smashing it up with a sledge hammer and setting it alight. However, in the confusion of war it's not unusual that some remained serviceable or were repaired by the Germans. The same thing happened in North Africa when the Germans and the Italians were in retreat, many of their abandoned vehicles were re used by the British. Also in North Africa in May 1943 250,000 Axis troops were captured including most of the AfrikaCorp along with all their equipment in. Later in their retreat from Sicily across the straights of Messina 12,000 German Troops and their equipment escaped in May. But in August around 125,000 Axis forces escaped to avoid the losses of North Africa. Which is a figure approaching the retreat from Dunkirk when 198,000 British and 140,000 French/Beligiums were evacuated. Unfortunately, Bidens evacuation from Afghanistan seemed ill conceived and planned, though many of the vehicles left there were those given to the Afghan army.
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