By the end of the eight day of the Dunkirk evacuation, a total of 338,226 soldiers were rescued.
=== Dunkirk in World War II ======= Evacuation ====During the Second World War, in the May 1940 Battle of France, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), while aiding the French and Belgian armies, were forced to retreat in the face of the overpowering German Panzer attacks
 More than 400,000 soldiers were trapped in the pocket as the German Army closed in for the kill

