Thursday, June 4, 2015

Dunkirk Done

TUE 4 JUN 1940
Operation Dynamo, begun on 26 May, is completed; all told, some 848 vessels of every size and displacement take part in the extraction of 338,226 men (including 123,000 French). Among the individuals who take part in this operation in a volunteer capacity is Charles Herbert Lightoller, the former second officer of the ill-fated passenger liner Titanic.

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