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Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s stirring declaration of "miracle of deliverance" remembered to this day. Read more.
During the dramatic Dunkirk evacuation, the skies became a deadly battleground between Britain’s agile Spitfires and ...
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 ...
Royals watchers and especially Queen Camilla stans are reaching for a tissue after reading her just-released statement. In it ...
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 ...
The Little Ships of Dunkirk set off on their journey for northern ... Channel to mark the 85th anniversary of the World War Two evacuation. Local residents were seen waving and cheering as the ...
In May 1940, 85 years ago, a military operation began to evacuate British and French soldiers from northern France following the German advance. The mission became known as Operation Dynamo.
The 1940 Dunkirk evacuation, which lasted nine days from 27 May to 4 June, was called by then Prime Minister Winston Churchill a "miracle of deliverance". But it followed what he said was a ...
A POOLE exhibition is highlighing the town's role in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Poole at Dunkirk 1940 exhibition, which has been set up at Lighthouse, tells the stories of the people of Poole who ...
It was meant to be a grand celebration marking Operation Dynamo – the heroic evacuation of more than 330,000 British and Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. A flotilla of 65 of the ...