Dunkirk

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4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Thursday 8 May

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How Churchill resisted advice to make peace with Hitler and ordered the Navy to proceed with the evacuation of Allies in northern France in 1940. The operation was expected to save 45,000 of the 300,000 men making their way to the coast as the Nazi blitzkrieg threatened to wipe out the entire Army