On this episode of History Date Night Justin and Jennie cover just two days, May 30th and 31st, 1940. This short but important stretch of days contains the most successful day of the entire Dunkirk evacuation, a general breaking down and weeping on the beach, and an argument between Churchill and Reynaud that's going to affect Anglo-French relations for years to come.

This episode also sees a Victoria Cross earned by holding a burning barn against overwhelming odds, a nurse's firsthand account of German aircraft attacking clearly marked ambulances, and Britain preparing for invasion by removing road signs in the British countryside and shipping sixty million pounds of gold across the Atlantic all while its army is still trapped on a French beach.