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You may have seen the hit movie Dunkirk<\/em>, director Christopher Nolan\u2019s powerful tribute to the real-life World War II drama that unfolded over 10 days in 1940, on the shores of France. But there\u2019s more to the story than what was shown on the screen. To wit, four miracles that changed the course of the war.<\/p>\n

For Winston Churchill, the new British prime minister, it all began with an early phone call on May 15 that roused him from sleep.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been defeated,\u201d said the French premier, Paul Reynaud. \u201cWe are beaten.\u201d<\/p>\n

Churchill was well aware of the Nazi advance. Days earlier, Adolf Hitler\u2019s army had taken Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg, with Denmark and Norway already in his grip. England had sent more than 200,000 troops to France and Belgium. All for nothing, it now seemed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurely it can\u2019t have happened so soon?\u201d the stunned Churchill said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe front is broken,\u201d Reynaud said. \u201cThe Nazis are pouring through in great numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Allies had severely miscalcu\u00adlated the path the Nazis would take. The Germans had swept south, through the supposedly impenetrable Ardennes Forest, a region the Allies had barely bothered to defend. Now British and French troops found themselves surrounded, in disarray. Their only possible escape was across the English Channel. Through Dunkirk, a city in northeast France. A mass evacuation would require funneling thousands upon thousands of soldiers, spread across hundreds of miles, into one space while the Nazis closed in with 1,800 tanks and 300 Stuka dive-bombers.<\/p>\n

For days, Churchill resisted that escape plan. It seemed like a suicide mission. They\u2019d be lucky to get 20,000 men home via the English Channel, let alone more than 300,000 Allied troops. But there was no other option. On May 23, Churchill met with the British monarch, King George VI, to brief him. Though a naval rescue operation were under way, pitifully few ships were ready to sail. The lo\u00adgistics of defending against the inevitable German air attack while ferrying the troops seemed impossi\u00adble. Allied soldiers were scrambling to reach Dunkirk. They barely knew which direction to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must pray,\u201d King George VI said. \u201cThis next Sunday, I\u2019m calling for a national day of prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Famously nonreligious, Churchill was surely not looking at prayer as the answer. But he could hardly refuse the king. On May 24, King George VI<\/a> addressed the nation: \u201cLet us with one heart and soul, humbly but confidently, commit our cause to God and ask his aid, that we may valiantly defend the right as it is given to us to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

On May 26, at Westminster Abbey, the Archbishop of Canterbury called on God to protect the troops. Across Great Britain, tens of thousands of people responded to the king\u2019s call, uniting as never before. Cathedrals and churches, mosques and syna\u00adgogues were packed to overflowing. At Westminster Cathedral, the line extended for blocks and hundreds kept vigil outside. The people didn\u2019t know exactly why they were praying, yet they prayed even so. \u201cNothing like this has ever happened before\u201d was how one English newspaper described the scene.<\/p>\n

The following day, though, the Ger\u00adman High Command reported, \u201cThe British army is encircled, and our troops are proceeding to its annihila\u00adtion.\u201d The war, it appeared, was over for the Allies. Few would have argued otherwise. Certainly not James Brad\u00adley, a British machine gunner. His unit had made it to Belgium before en\u00adcountering overwhelming force from the Germans.<\/p>\n

The soldiers were instructed to \u201cget back to Dunkirk.\u201d Where? Most British soldiers had probably never even heard of Dunkirk. Handed a rifle with a bayonet, Bradley was told he was on his own. \u201cIf they had said [get to] New York, I couldn\u2019t have been more surprised,\u201d Bradley recalled, years later. \u201cI didn\u2019t know where Dunkirk was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everywhere, the roads were filled with British and French soldiers. Abandoned tanks and equipment lit\u00adtered the countryside. Thousands of refugees marched with escaping troops, some driving cars, everyone fleeing in advance of the Germans. From out of the skies would come the Stukas, strafing everything in sight. The scene was horrific.<\/p>\n

But all was not as it appeared.<\/p>\n

Something happened that histori\u00adans, even 77 years later, can\u2019t ex\u00adplain. With German tanks rumbling just 10 miles from Dunkirk, Hitler did the unthinkable. On May 24, the day King George VI called the nation to pray<\/a>, Hitler inexplicably halted the offensive. For nearly three days, as England knelt as one, those tanks remained grounded. Nothing moved.<\/p>\n

It was the exact window of time the British needed to form a defen\u00adsive perimeter, to temporarily fight back the Germans and establish a funnel for their troops to flow through to the English Channel.<\/p>\n

Then came something else. Rain and clouds. German planes bombed Dunkirk on three separate days, but each time, for days afterward, the city was enveloped by inclement weather, making any effective follow-up from the Nazis difficult. What\u2019s more, a breeze seemed to collect smoke emitted from the German bombs and distribute it over the area the British were using to load men into boats. The Allied exodus went undetected for days.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, word was spreading across England of the need for boats to cross the channel to Dunkirk. For what purpose no one was exact\u00adly sure. Almost any vessel would do. Rowboats. Fishing trawlers. Tugs. Motorboats. Hundreds of would-be skippers responded. Some had nev\u00ader been out of sight of land before. Many of the crafts lacked compass\u00ades. None of them were armed.<\/p>\n

Robert Hilton, a physical educa\u00adtion instructor, and Ted Shaw, a cin\u00adema manager, were among those who answered the call. They joined a makeshift crew with a motorboat, Ryegate II. <\/em>But when they reached the town of Ramsgate, off the tip of southern England, the only supplies they were given were two cans of water. Not even a cup to drink with. The two of them went to a pub, downed a pint, pocketed the glasses and set off toward France.<\/p>\n

The English Channel is notoriously rough, choppy\u2014no place for novice seamen\u2014but once again something peculiar happened. The water Hilton and Shaw encountered was like that of a bathtub, with barely a ripple to disturb the journey. No one had ever seen anything like it. There were so many boats that in places the waters resembled a freeway at rush hour.<\/p>\n

James Bradley, the machine gun\u00adner, eventually reached De Panne, Belgium, just east of Dunkirk. Over the sand hills, he could see thousands of soldiers huddled, a line of small boats coming in to the shore and ferrying the men to larger vessels in the deeper water, guarded over by ships with guns. They\u2019ll never get these people off here, <\/em>he thought.<\/p>\n

But it was happening. From De Panne and Dunkirk. A few boats at a time, offloading a few dozen men, then coming back for more, round the clock, a dizzying spectacle.<\/p>\n

The Ryegate II <\/em>limped into the wa\u00adters off France, her engines broken, her propeller twisted by wreckage. Robert Hilton and Ted Shaw tied up to a larger boat and manned one of its lifeboats. For 17 hours straight, they rowed soldiers from shore to ship.<\/p>\n

In the first five days of the rescue mission, more than 100,000 soldiers were evacuated. That still left more than 200,000 men, tens of thousands desperately fighting to hold the perimeter. They\u2019d be the last to go.<\/p>\n

Bradley never forgot the hero\u2019s welcome he received when he at last reached the shores of England. The tables loaded with tea and buns. The crowds of people waving, cheering. This is England, <\/em>he thought. You\u2019re worth fighting for. <\/em>Hilton and Shaw would also remem\u00adber the cheers that greeted them. Exhausted, they and the other crew members somehow managed to get the crippled Ryegate II <\/em>back to Eng\u00adland, throngs of jubilant well-wishers at every bridge on the Thames River.<\/p>\n

By then, 338,000 soldiers had made it safely across the English Channel as well, thanks to the efforts of about 850 \u201clittle ships.\u201d There was a feeling of determination, not surrender. Deliverance by a divine hand. It was exactly what the British soldiers\u2014and civilians\u2014needed to forge ahead. Especially so early in the war.<\/p>\n

On June 4, Churchill went to the House of Commons to deliver the news. \u201cWe shall fight on the beaches,\u201d he thundered. \u201cWe shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister called it a mira\u00adcle, a word he was not known to often use. There seemed no other word to describe it. Not just one, but a whole series of miracles. Without any one of them, the entire operation would have failed. Hitler halting the blitzkrieg. The thick, protective cloud cover. The English Channel growing still. The hundreds of tiny boats, appearing seemingly from out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

What turned the tide? For the king, there was no question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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