DUNKIRK IN NUMBERS

26 Dist ance in miles of Route X, the safest evacuation route across the English Channel 18 seconds Duration a Spitfire machine gun can continuously fire for 1940 The year of Operation Dynamo 6 Number of British destroyer ships sunk 9 Total number of days it took to rescue the soldiers in Dunkirk 338,226 Number of Belgian, Canadian, British and French soldiers rescued from Dunkirk 800 Boats used in the rescue miss ion