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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ben Mitchell

New shipwrecks survey uncovers locations of three Dunkirk boats

PA Media

The locations of three boats used in the Dunkirk evacuation in the Second World War have been uncovered for the first time by a detailed survey of 30 shipwrecks off the French coast.

More than 338,000 Allied soldiers were rescued by small boats from Dunkirk in nine days between May 26 and June 4 1940.

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