[1] Day 1: Captain Bill Tennant, Royal Navy, at the Admiralty receives reports of the British Expeditionary Force's retreat and prepares to oversee Operation Dynamo.
New Prime Minister Winston Churchill chairs a briefing of the War Cabinet where Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax presses for peace negotiations.
Adolf Hitler has halted the Blitzkrieg, giving Tombs's company time to consolidate their position and Signalmen Clive Tonry and Wilf Saunders return to offer support.
Tombs's company is forced to pull back as it comes under fire and Tonry and Saunders head into the front line in a last-ditch attempt to hold open the corridor.
Captain Tom Halsey and navigator David Mellis hold their destroyer, HMS Malcolm, off the coast while small boats ferry troops to her.
BEF commander Lord Gort, contemplating his unauthorised order to retreat from a villa overlooking the beach and organises a final defensive perimeter.
When the cockleboat Renown is amongst those small boats requisitioned, Captain Harry Noakes and his crew volunteer to stay on for the mission to France.
With a large percentage of the British fleet tied up in the rescue operation, Churchill orders the gassing of Britain's south coast to ward off invasion.
Day 6: The Renown joins the hundreds of small craft that narrowly avoid running aground in order to rescue the troops from the French beaches.
Tonry and Saunders are amongst the two-thirds of the BEF evacuated safely back to England but 200,000 allied troops remain on the beach as the perimeter comes under attack from advancing enemy forces.
Day 6: Lieutenant Jimmy Langley and Major Angus McCorquodale of the Coldstream Guards receive orders to hold the perimeter for one last night.