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Operation Dynamo: 70 Years After, The Veterans Return To Dunkirk

TO Dunkirk with the dwindling bad of veterans of Operation Dynamo. Seventy years ago, a massive operation made up of mostly fishing vessels and privately owned boats set sail across the English Channel. Thanks to them, 225,000 British troops and 125,000 French were rescued from the Dunkirk beaches. Had they not been rescued the German war machine was ready to slaughter them… Can you imagine it? The fear. The relief. The sorrow. They’re going back. To remember. Don’t forget…

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Veteran Charles Searle, 92, on board a ferry bound for Dunkirk, France, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Operation Dynamo.

Posted: 27th, May 2010 | In: Flashback | Comment (1)