Over the next 10 days we'll be History Hitting you with a daily film about the ‎Dunkirk evacuations.
On 26 May 1940 Winston Churchill orders the evacuation of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from Dunkirk. Operation Dynamo hopes to save 45,000 British troops from the advancing Nazi juggernaut.
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