The space also includes Sapper Alexander Graham King’s accordion - which he played in Dunkirk to boost troop morale - letters from survivors, a camera belonging to Captain Edward Malindine, one of the few official photographers to capture the evacuation and the Tamzine, probably the smallest boat used in Operation Dynamo.Evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches of Dunkirk in the North of France over nine days between May 26 and June 4 1940.īeing dunked in the sea irked him (Dunkirk) but as soon as he dined for a moment (Dynamo) he felt better. Despite suffering heavy losses, the operation was very successful and the majority of the British Expeditionary Force on the run from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht returned to British soil. Operation Dynamo saw some 338,000 British and French soldiers rescued between May 27 and Jby warships and a flotilla of pleasure boats and other small craft. Now London’s Imperial War Museum brings “Operation Dynamo” alive with a new public space where anyone can drop in for free and access a selection of the Museums vast digitized collections - including 50,000 images, 10,000 sound files and a total of 600,000 items on database, documents and books. 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 biggest rescue operation.ĭescribed as a “miracle of deliverance” by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the 1940 evacuation of British troops from the shores of France is considered one of several key events which determined the outcome of World War Two.
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