Date Troops evacuated from beaches Troops evacuated from Dunkirk Harbour Total 27 May-7, May5,93011,87417, May13,75233,55847, May29,51224,31153, May22,94245,07268,014 1 June17,34847,08164,429 2 June6,69519,56126,256 3 June1,87024,87626,746 4 June62225,55326,175 Totals98,780239,446338,226

Facts & Figures of the Evacuation of the Allied Army from Dunkirk at the end of the Battle of France “The Miracle of Dunkirk”  late May – early June 1940  9 days  340,000 troops  850 boats – 700 of which were civilian boats  British, French, Belgian

Soviet-controlled Axis-controlled neutral Allied-controlled June 1940

Winston Churchill “the gathering storm” – was radically opposed to appeasement becomes PM after Chamberlain resigns, May 1940 face of British resistance, the fierce fighting spirit of Britain during WWII 2002 British poll named him the “Greatest Briton of All Time”

“History will judge us kindly”, Churchill told Roosevelt and Stalin at the Tehran Conference in When asked how he could be so sure, he responded, “because I shall write the history”.

Late May – Beg. June – Dunkirk evacuation June 4 th – “We shall fight on the beaches” speech June 10 th – Italy declares war on Britain & France June 18 th – “This will be our finest hour” speech June 22 nd – France officially surrenders JULY 1940 – MAY 1941 – BATTLE OF BRITAIN

Fuhrer Directive No. 17 “The Luftwaffe is to overcome the English Air Force [Royal Air Force, RAF] with all means at its disposal and in the shortest possible time. The attacks are to be primarily directed against the planes themselves, the ground organization, and the supply installations, also against the aircraft industry, including plants producing anti-aircraft material.”

Why didn’t Nazi Germany win the Battle of Britain? Target switch RADAR Planes Home advantage Bad intelligence – bureaucratic rivalry

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Churchill referring to what the British people owed the RAF for their victories during the Battle of Britain

The poster's popularity, reignited in 2000, has been attributed to a "nostalgia for a certain British character, an outlook“. According to Bagehot, a reporter for The Economist, it "taps directly into the country's mythic image of itself: unshowily brave and just a little stiff, brewing tea as the bombs fall.”

St. Paul’s Cathedral in London through the smoke of the Blitz