At the end of May 1940, at the government's request, thousands of boats set sail to rescue almost a quarter of a million Allied troops who had retreated from Hitler's forces onto the shores of Dunkirk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on June 4, 1940, announcing the ongoing evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France. In ...

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The sheer improbability of the Dunkirk evacuation is laid bare by the expectations of the British Admiralty: secretly, they feared they would only be able to rescue 40,000 troops–10% of the total ...