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Isle of Wight boat in Oscar movie heading for Dunkirk in May
A BOAT owned by an Isle of Wight couple will take part in the 85th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation in France. The vessel, Papillon, based in Cowes, will be among the fleet of small craft ...
About 850 private boats, known as Little Ships, sailed from Ramsgate, Kent, to Dunkirk in May and June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo during World War Two. More than 338,000 British and French ...
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 ...
The wreckage of one the "little ships" that took part in the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk during World War Two has been removed from a river. The Compass Rose was one of about 850 boats that ...
Four hundred thousand British and French soldiers are holed up in the French port town of Dunkirk. The only way ... bombing the British soldiers and ships without much opposition.