Malo-les-Bains

This morning we ferried across the English Channel from Dover to Dunkirk. There is a bunker near the beach which has been turned into a museum, 1940 Operation Dynamo, in which over 300,000 Allied troops were evacuated in 8 days, with the aid of a flotilla of "Little Ships". We saw the movie Dunkerque earlier this summer, and seeing where it happened brings it to life. Of course, many died too, and civilians were displaced or killed as well.Read more