How many Allied soldiers were rescued at the Battle of Dunkirk?

In 1940 "A miracle" took place. This is the best description of what happened at Dunkirk in May and June 1940. Hundreds of thousands of troops (over 330,000 soldiers) were rescued from the German advance in the nick of time. These troops were desperately needed back on the home shores to help defend against a Nazi invasion.

The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, was the greatest evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the harbor and beaches of Dunkirk, France, between May 26 and June 4, 1940. Prior to this evacuation, the Allied troops at Dunkirk had been encircled by the Nazis from Germany.

During the rescue operation about 100,000 men were air lifted from the beaches. And the rest of the troops were taken from the harbor and wooden breakwaters in ships. An estimated 933 ships took part; 236 were lost and 61 had to be pulled from any subsequent actions.

So in the decades after the Battle of Dunkirk, it has inspired endless debate about how the war might have been changed. Some call it perhaps Hitler's greatest blunder to have allowed so many Allied troops to escape, while others dismiss the idea (suggestion) that the Allies definitely would have lost the war without the required evacuation.