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4 days ago · World War II - Dunkirk Evacuation: Dunkirk was now the only port left available for the withdrawal of the mass of the British Expeditionary Force from Europe, and the British Cabinet at last decided to save what could be saved.
2 days ago · Dunkirk is a 2017 epic historical war thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of the land, sea, and air.
2 days ago · The WVS organised the evacuation of children, established centres for those displaced by bombing and operated canteens, salvage and recycling schemes. By the end of 1941, the WVS had one million members.
2 days ago · Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Part of the Second Phase Offensive of the Korean War. A column of the US 1st Marine Division moves through Chinese lines during its breakout from the Chosin Reservoir with a M46 Patton medium tank. Date. 27 November – 13 December 1950. Location.
3 days ago · The siege of Dunkirk in World War II (also known as the Second Battle of Dunkirk) began in September 1944, when the Second Canadian Division surrounded the fortified city and port of Dunkirk. The siege lasted until after the end of the European war in Europe.
4 days ago · The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of ... On the first day only 7,669 Allied soldiers were evacuated, but by the end of the eighth day, 338,226 had been rescued by a hastily assembled fleet ...
4 days ago · Normandy Invasion, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France.
