SURVIVING THE REAL-LIFE DUNKIRK
In the spring of 1940, Allied troops were trapped on the French coast as the Germans advanced— but more than 338,000 were rescued, thanks to the British Navy and civilians who sailed to their aid in fishing boats and ferries. “It is very important that people know about it. There are very few of us left and we have been through hell,” says veteran Garth Wright (inset), 97. With only the English Channel separating them from home, British soldiers were left defenceless as German planes strafed them. “I was the only one to survive of the boys I left with,” the gunner says. “We were a band of brothers.”