04 June 2016
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The 10-day evacuation of Dunkirk in World War II ended on 4 June 1940
The 10-day evacuation of Dunkirk in World War II - code-named Operation Dynamo - ended on 4 June 1940, with the rescue of the last of more than 330,000 Allied troops who had been trapped by the advancing German Army. Churchill’s ‘miracle’ rescue, which prompted his famous ‘We shall fight on the beaches’ speech on 4 June, was achieved thanks to a flotilla of 900 naval and civilian craft in the Channel, under protection of the RAF.
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