Shattered by bomb impacts, the 100-meter-long British destroyer "Keith" has been lying at the bottom of the Dunkirk channel since its sinking in 1940. It went down during Operation Dynamo, when ...

There are few events in the history of war comparable to the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the French beach at Dunkirk in the late spring of 1940. It is an episode that repays ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 4, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. In 1940, as casualties mounted across Europe, the ...

A new exhibition will mark the 85th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation. Set to launch on Wednesday, April 30 in Poole, the event titled "Dunkirk 1940: Our People’s Stories" will be a month-long ...

Visitors to Dover Castle will soon be able to get a feel for the drama of the Dunkirk evacuation and explore the hidden tunnels where the rescue operation was masterminded. A new exhibition will allow ...

'The Incredible Dunkirk Shipwreck You Can Still Explore' War historian James Rogers travels to Dunkirk in northern France in search of the surviving traces of the Second World War. In this episode, ...

Nine months after World War II began, the German Nazi war machine drove French, British, and Belgian troops west across France into a town on the English Channel’s coast, called Dunkirk. By late May ...

Invisible iceberg: Calm seas, cloudy skies aid the Dunkirk evacuation One of WWII's most defining moments: The Dunkirk Evacuation and how weather played a pivotal role in the fate of thousands of ...

The Guide of Dunkirk is a historic motor lifeboat, famous for its role as one of the “Little Ships” in the Dunkirk evacuation during World War II. Its story is one of service and courage. She was ...