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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.
Dunkirk is a coastal city in France. If your talking about the battle of Dunkirk and the following evacuation. Then that's a longer story. By May 1940 what we know as WW2 has been happening since September 1939. Poland had been defeated and he German army was massing for an attack on the BEF (British Expoditionary Force) and the French Army.