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 ...

In 1940 he was with thousands of other soldiers on the beaches at Dunkirk waiting to be evacuated. Whilst they waited for the boats the soldiers were shot at and bombed, and the Germans dropped ...

Demoralised, starving and exhausted, the men waiting on the beaches of Dunkirk endured days of fierce bombardment, while many of the boats that came to their rescue were sunk, with heavy loss of life.

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 ...

Comes after yachts from around the world vowed to search at the boat's last known location Prime ... was described as channelling the 'Spirit of Dunkirk' U.S. Coastguard previously called off ...

The most famous of these “Little Ships of Dunkirk” was the Medway Queen, led by Cook. For six days and nights, Cook and his crew made the perilous trip back and forth to the shores of Dunkirk ...

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.