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

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

Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s stirring declaration of "miracle of deliverance" remembered to this day. Read more.

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 ...

During the Second World War, a fleet of a thousand ships answered the call to bring back British and Allied soldiers, all ...

More than 338,000 British, French and Belgian soldiers at the mercy of the German invaders were brought to safety in what ...

As Britain marks the 85th anniversary of Dunkirk, one Kent town is calling for recognition of the role it played in rescuing ...

Nine months after World War II began, the German Nazi war machine drove French, British, and Belgian troops west across France into a town on the English Channel’s coast, called Dunkirk. By late ...

With the loss of the last Dunkirk vet, the job of remembrance falls to the little ships, says Steffan Meyric Hughes.

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 ...