Veterans of World War II describe their experiences of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the evacuation On 10 May the German Army invaded Holland and Belgium The Blitzkrieg had begun an entirely ...

Movies: Dunkirk, Bombers and the Bombed, Evacuees, Secret Army, D-Day In June 1940, the British Expeditionary Force and the remnants of the French army were trapped in a pocket around the port of ...

May/June 1940. Four hundred thousand British and French soldiers are holed up in the French port town of Dunkirk. The only way out is via sea, and the Germans have air superiority, bombing the ...

In 1940 he was with thousands of other soldiers on the beaches at Dunkirk waiting to be evacuated. Whilst they waited for the boats the soldiers were shot at and bombed, and the Germans dropped ...

Here are five movies to watch if you like Masters ... Britain sends civilian boats to Dunkirk to rescue soldiers. Before Oppenheimer, Dunirk could have easily been considered Nolan’s best ...

In June 1940, in the days after the successful mass evacuation at Dunkirk, more than 10,000 men fought a desperate last stand in a small French seaside town. Among them was teenage soldier Donald ...

Details of the Compass Rose's role in the evacuation of more than 336,000 British and French soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at Dunkirk appears to have been lost, the agency said.

They've been asked to give some cover to the soldiers ... making this movie on the actual beach where it happened, and going to the museum and seeing footage of the real Dunkirk evacuation ...

Hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian soldiers were stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk, in northern France, after being pushed back by German forces. And so began Operation Dynamo ...