Rescued troops here
Little Ships of Dunkirk → Dunkirk: Rescued troops here. The Little Ships of Dunkirk consisted of over 800 naval and requisitioned vessels, and small, private boats, that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helping to rescue more than Dunkirk is a major port city in the department of Nord, and the region of Hauts-de-France, northern France. 2 mi) from the Belgian border. It has the third-largest French harbour. The population of the commune is about 86,000.