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Wren officer who worked on the preparations for D-Day and plotted the vast allied armada on the night it crossed the Channel
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Wren officer who worked on the preparations for D-Day and plotted the vast allied armada on the night it crossed the Channel
Between May 27 and June 4, 1940, 338,226 Allied troops were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk by military, merchant and fishing vessels and civilian 'little ships'.
Lawrence Churcher died earlier this month at a care home in Fareham, Hampshire, just days short of his 103rd birthday, said the Project 71 charity, which supports Second World War veterans.
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Lawrence Churcher landed in France in May 1940 to help get ammunition to the front lines - and later became one of 338,000 troops to be evacuated as part of Operation Dynamo.