A major motion picture’s debut inspired one Columbus man to share the story of his grandfather’s involvement in a significant moment of world history. “Dunkirk,” directed by Christopher Nolan, tells ...

Troops of the British Expeditionary Force landed from a destroyer at a British Port on June 1, 1940 after being evacuated following heroic fighting from Flanders.Troops of the British Expeditionary ...

After the last rescue boats left Dunkirk harbor on June 4, 1940, the Germans captured some 40,000 French troops who’d been left behind as well as at least 40,000 British soldiers in the Dunkirk ...

Two of the many small boats which helped to bring the Allied troops in the emergency evacuation across the English Channel from Dunkirk, France, are shown on June 4, 1940 in World War II. A dense ...

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 ...

Dunkirk opened in July and became a big summer hit despite the fact this relatively little-known story of a massive rescue of 300,000 mostly British soldiers from the beaches of the French town of ...

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 ...

There is a moment in the newly released film “Dunkirk” when a British officer peers out at a ragtag flotilla of civilian boats approaching where he stands at the water’s edge on a beach in the north ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: There were four hundred thousand British and French troops to evacuate through a moderate-sized port whose docks were being destroyed by bombs and shells. Even under ...

How courage and ingenuity saved Allied troops during the epic Dunkirk operation in 1940. As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk.

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 ...

British 2nd Lt. P.D. Elliman had escaped from the German onslaught in a driving rain. He and his men from the Royal Artillery had fled in a truck they were forced to abandon. Now, on the evening of ...