Military Miracle Of Dunkerque

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For three fateful days, the greatest military miracle of the second world war took place on the beaches of France. Nearly 400,000 British, French, Polish, and Belgium men packed together like fish in a barrel waiting to be obliterated by the Luftwaffe. Behind every miracle lays a story of heroism of Britain’s men of the air and sea. The rescue “of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkerque was accomplished by assembling of a fleet of almost 900 vessels”. Ordinarily, military success is achieved by the men in uniform, however, this miracle was on the “part played by amateur British sailors in getting the British Soldiers out of France and across the Channel”. Of the 900 vessels, “222 were ships of the Royal Navy and 665 were small Merchant

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