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A flotilla of 900 naval and civilian craft was sent across the Channel under RAF protection and managed to rescue 338,226 people. During the evacuation, the Luftwaffe attacked whenever the weather allowed, reducing the town of Dunkirk to rubble and destroying 235 vessels and 106 aircraft. At least 5,000 soldiers lost their lives.
Hundreds of civilian ships helped the soldiers to escape. More than 300,000 troops were evacuated from Dunkirk and the surrounding beaches in May and June 1940. At the time the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said it was a miracle of deliverance. Dunkirk writer David J. Knowles explains what happened. A miracle - is the best description of what happened at Dunkirk in May and June 1940.