The weather was almost identical. A stiff breeze and a choppy swell. Just an occasional glimpse of sun in an otherwise pallid sky. And for the 30 courageous elderly men, with tears in their eyes, the ...

George Hulls was my step-grandad, but we always referred to him as 'uncle george'. He never said much about his involvement in the war, and died when I was too young to appreciate the benefit of ...

My job is Chiefs and Petty Officers Messman. I keep the Mess spotless, prepare food for galley and live in the Mess. Good crowd, Ben the Coxswain and Dick the Buffer, the T1 and the G1 are all nice ...

Amid the carnage of war re-created in the movie “Dunkirk” — dogfights between Messerschmitts and Spitfires, bombing sorties by Heinkels and Stukas — as hundreds of thousands of stranded Allied troops ...

As the exhausted troops returned after their Dunkirk ordeal 80 years ago they felt they had let their country down. Sign Up to our exclusive picture archive and fascinating nostalgia features on the ...

George Hulls was my step-grandad, but we always referred to him as 'uncle george'. He never said much about his involvement in the war, and died when I was too young to appreciate the benefit of ...