DUNKIRK, France (AP) — Veterans and European officials are marking 75 years since a huge operation to evacuate 338,000 troops trapped by advancing Nazi troops from the shores of Dunkirk in northern ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the veterans who took part in the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation of British and French forces reunited in London this week to commemorate the 70th anniversary of World War Two's ...

In the late spring of 1940, thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of northern France were spent, demoralized, and facing near-certain defeat at the hands of Nazi forces. The British government ...

Pictures of an RNLI crew and the lifeboat they used to helped rescue allied troops in Dunkirk have been newly colourised to mark the 85th anniversary of the evacuation. Coxswain Edward Drake Parker ...

The last surviving "beach master" involved in the Royal Navy ’s legendary World War 2 Dunkirk evacuation has died, aged 99. Vic Viner - who spent six days and nights under fire on the beaches during ...

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Superheroes will be the big box-office draw again this weekend. Yet this time they won't be wearing capes, but military uniforms and, most notably, civilian clothes, as heroic, humble British citizens ...

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