During the dramatic Dunkirk evacuation, the skies became a deadly battleground between Britain’s agile Spitfires and ...

More than 338,000 soldiers of the Allied Forces were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in France on June 4, 1940, making ...

Allied forces retreated from the German advance through north-western Europe, and fell back to the Channel ports of France where they were trapped. Their rescue was codenamed Operation Dynamo and ...

Some 66 boats have recreated the heroic Operation Dynamo exodus which saved hundreds of thousands of soldiers' lives 85 years ...

The 1940 Dunkirk evacuation, which lasted nine days from 27 May to 4 June, was called by then Prime Minister Winston ...

Dozens of boats set sail from Ramsgate to honour the heroes who helped bring thousands of troops back to Britain in 1940. Our ...

A fleet of 66 'little ships' is sailing from Ramsgate to Dunkirk in France to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Operation ...

This is the moment a migrant dinghy forced a flotilla of 'Little Ships' commemorating the legendary Dunkirk evacuation to make way - flanked by a French navy boat. Commemorations of the 85th ...

A flotilla of "Little Ships" were forced to divert their Dunkirk commemorations in the English Channel so the Border Force ...

On May 26, 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the ...