The Dunkirk Story

At just before 7pm on May 26th 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill authorized 'Operation Dynamo' to commence. By the time the operation came to an end on the night of June 4th, a total of 338,226 Belgian, French and British soldiers had been rescued by a hastily assembled fleet of over 800 boats. The rescue was necessary because the British Expeditionary Force – or BEF - that had gone to assist...