Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of Royal Ulster Rifles waiting on improvised pier of lorries to evacuate Dunkirk during low tide. Two of the many small ...

At the time of Dunkirk (Late May — early June 1940) my father, Fred Wilkinson ERA(RN), MX48140, was under training at H.M.S. Dolphin, the submarine school, having volunteered from surface ships at the ...

The last surviving boat from a major Second World War operation has been restored to its former glory after it was dumped in a field.

For Britons, Dunkirk is one of the proudest moments of World War II. The evacuation of 338,226 troops and other personnel from the beaches of northern France – which took place between May 26 and June ...

During the fighting near Dunkirk in 1940, Waffen-SS commanders pushed aggressive attacks against British canal defenses ...

“Dunkirk” has been the surprise box office hit of the summer. It recounts the tale of how the beaten British army escaped the Germans at the beginning of World War II, from a beach at Dunkirk, in ...

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 May ...

Shattered by bomb impacts, the 100-meter-long British destroyer "Keith" has been lying at the bottom of the Dunkirk channel since its sinking in 1940. It went down during Operation Dynamo, when ...

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