Ovi Histor

On May 26, 1940, as German forces closed in on the trapped British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and Allied troops at the French port of Dunkirk, the massive evacuation code-named Operation Dynamo began. Over 338,000 soldiers, British, French, Belgian, and Canadian, were surrounded on the beaches, facing relentless Luftwaffe bombing and advancing Panzer divisions. A hastily assembled fleet of over 800 vessels, known as the "Little Ships of Dunkirk," including naval destroyers, merchant marine boats