Ron and his comrades were among the first British soldiers to be captured by the Nazis during the fighting around Dunkirk. The eldest of four children, Ron was starting a career as a baker when he ...

Operation Meteoric has been likened to Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers from Dunkirk in 1940 when they were surrounded by German forces. Israel and its ...

Veterans of World War II describe their experiences of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the evacuation On 10 May the German Army invaded Holland and Belgium The Blitzkrieg had begun an entirely ...

Hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian soldiers were stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk, in northern France, after being pushed back by German forces. And so began Operation Dynamo ...

There were many important battles and military missions during the war including Dunkirk which happened in May 1940. During World War II, British, French and Belgian soldiers joined together and ...

Some of my mates didn't. I continued my seven miles up to Dunkirk. NARRATOR:'Jim was one of over 330,000 British and French troops who made it to England. NARRATOR:'The miraculous evacuation from ...

May/June 1940. Four hundred thousand British and French soldiers are holed up in the French port town of Dunkirk. The only way out is via sea, and the Germans have air superiority, bombing the ...

Charles Herbert Lightoller was born in Chorley, on March 30, 1874, the youngest of seven children to army captain Frederick James Lightoller ...

Telling the story of the evacuation at Dunkirk, the film follows soldiers on the ground, two pilots surveying the scene from above, and a group of civilians steering their boats across the channel ...

In July 1940, Ron was hospitalised in France after shrapnel hit him in the back and head, denting his tin helmet. And after ...