There are hardly any French soldiers in it ... Bruno believes the Dunkirk evacuation - inspired by the British wartime leader Winston Churchill - was an essential precursor to the D-Day landings ...

HMS Wellington, also saw action during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, when she was ... had managed to embark 300 soldiers at St Valery before heading back across ...

during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, have been discovered at The University of Manchester Library. The reels of black and white footage capture key moments during Operation ...

The remarkable evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk was a pivotal moment ... On 28 May, he led 300 Indian soldiers and 23 British troops in an orderly column along the bombed-out harbour ...

“Dunkirk” is an interesting film for our cultural moment. The evacuation of the ... he finds line upon line of soldiers waiting nervously but patiently for British destroyers to come and ...

Having retreated back through France, thousands of soldiers of the British army found themselves ... While the Navy threw itself into the Dunkirk evacuation, with manic courage and self-sacrifice ...

British Typhoon fighter jets ... has been likened to Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied ...

Photo: Armed soldiers stand guard on a ... nation after the defeat in France and the Dunkirk evacuation. play The resilience of Churchill and the British people The resilience of Churchill and ...

Veterans of World War II describe their experiences of the retreat to Dunkirk ... British Army a shattering blow Within three weeks it was a crushing defeat leading to the largest military ...

Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ... key moments during Operation Dynamo, the rescue from Dunkirk of over 300,000 ...