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Question:The evacuation of Dunkirk France, codenamed "Operation Dynamo" by the British, was a large evacuation of Allied soldiers from May 26 to June 4, 1940, during the Battle of Dunkirk.

In nine days, more than three hundred thousand (331,226) soldiers — 192,226 British and 139,000 French — were rescued from Dunkirk and the surrounding beaches by a hastily assembled fleet of 860 boats. These craft included the famous "Little Ships of Dunkirk", a mixture of merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and RNLI lifeboats, whose civilian crews were called into service for the emergency. These small craft ferried troops from the beaches to larger ships waiting offshore, which were mainly large destroyer ships.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The evacuation of Dunkirk France, codenamed "Operation Dynamo" by the British, was a large evacuation of Allied soldiers from May 26 to June 4, 1940, during the Battle of Dunkirk.

In nine days, more than three hundred thousand (331,226) soldiers — 192,226 British and 139,000 French — were rescued from Dunkirk and the surrounding beaches by a hastily assembled fleet of 860 boats. These craft included the famous "Little Ships of Dunkirk", a mixture of merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and RNLI lifeboats, whose civilian crews were called into service for the emergency. These small craft ferried troops from the beaches to larger ships waiting offshore, which were mainly large destroyer ships.

Bastogne?

At some point, in WW2 all of them.