The War World II Dunkirk evacuation begins. Also known as Operation Dynamo or the Miracle of Dunkirk, a combination of naval ships and hundreds of merchant marine, leisure vessels and other civilian boats rescued more than 300,000 British and Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France in eight days. The trapped forces resulted from the lighting German invasion of France which caught the French and the British Expeditionary Force off guard. More
Retreat from Dunkirk - Royal Air Force official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
