...minutes of the meeting: "The Prime Minister thought that as a precautionary measure the Admiralty should assemble a large number of small vessels in readiness...proceed to ports and inlets on the French coast." On this the Admiralty acted immediately and with ever-increasing vigour as the days passed and darkened....

...back to the sea. In the face of this disaster, Churchill ordered the Admiralty to begin assembling small vessels "in readiness to proceed to ports and inlets on the French coast" for the evacuation of what was left of the army. The French were kept in the dark about the plan. The...

...Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill (qv) suggested "as a precautionary measure the Admiralty should assemble a large number of small vessels in readiness...proceed to ports and inlets on the French coast." This initial guidance resulted in Operation DYNAMO and the evacuation of 338,226 Allied troops in what...