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British Soldiers Disembarking from a Warship at Dover Following the Evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940. Second World War. 'So began the nine days of [Operation] Dynamo. Under a black shroud from burning oil tanks, Dunkirk and its shell-torn bomb-raked beaches becomes the focus of the free world. Hour after hour, men wade out to the waiting ships, and between the shore and the larger vessels, ferry the little ships, each bringing but a handful, but each handful swelling the ranks of the rescued. If this luck and effort continues, who knows how many might yet escape?...each ship, packed with men, sets course for England. They called it a miracle, as miracle indeed it was. Instead of the expected few, over 300,000 men had been lifted from Dunkirk to the shores of Britain'. From "Time To Remember - Run Rabbit Run", 1940 ( Reel 4); documentary film about events of early months of 1940.