Guest blogger Dan Snow: Dunkirk – Day by Day 4 June 1940 (Watch)

Dan Snow gives us a day-by-day account of the miraculous evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII.

June 4th 1940 – Operation Dynamo comes to an end. The mission has been a phenomenal success with 338,226 soldiers being evacuated, nearly 10 times the number Churchill believed could be saved. However, the cost of the mission was high: over 106 aircraft were lost along with 243 ships and countless lives. Find out what happened…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ge24gb4DuQ

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