During World War II, Operation Cycle was the evacuation of Allied troops from Le Havre, France at the end of the Battle of France. From 10–13 June 1940, 11,059 British and Allied forces were evacuated. Cycle was preceded by the better known Operation Dynamo, the rescue of 338,226 British and French soldiers from Dunkirk from 26 May – 4 June, followed by Operation Ariel, in which over 215,000 soldiers embarked from Cherbourg, St.