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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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The Prince of Wales inspects the fleet of Little Ships at Dunkirk Harbour with a megaphone. The Prince took the salute at the last official parade of Dunkirk veterans on the 60th anniversary of the miraculous evacuation of troops trapped on beaches at the French port. * Hundreds of Dunkirk veterans around the UK who were among the 338,226 troops who were rescued from the beaches in May and June 1940 stood in formation, their medals glittering in the June sunshine.
Posted: 27th, May 2010 | In: Flashback | Comment (1)
