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Everyone knows the existence of the SAS or Special Air Force, the British special forces, founded in 1941, in the middle of World War II, as an elite force to infiltrate the German lines. In fact they...

FILM star Dame Helen Mirren has climbed aboard a charity set up to restore a historic boat which played a key part in Dunkirk... and even featured…

French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud (pictured with Churchill in 1950) pleaded with his counterpart to provide more air support as the German Blitzkrieg rolled on during the Battle of France in June 1940.

Dunkirk 'Little Ship' is lost in boatyard blaze: Historic vessel that took part in WWII evacuation is destroyed after huge inferno ripped through Grade II listed building on island in Thames 'Little Ship' the Lady Gay caught alight as it waited on the slipway on Platt's Eyot island in Hampton on Monday Two Grade II-listed, timber-framed boathouses built in 1916 were also completely ravaged by the fire  Restorations were just carried out on Lady Gay, with owner dubbing destruction 'nothing short of tragedy' Platt's Eyot is home to 2 other 'Little Ships', Mary Irene and Elvin, but both were mo...

Dead Battleships: In 1940, the British Preemptively Sunk the French Navy Most of the remaining French Fleet had been scuttled at Toulon on November 27, 1942, following the Allied invasion of North Africa, to prevent its seizure by Germany after the Nazi takeover of Vichy France. Here's What You Need To Remember: The Mers-el-Kebir attack was, of course, received poorly in Vichy, and it led to lingering tensions between the British and the Free French, who, Vichy or otherwise, were the countrymen of the sailors that it had attacked. But the raid also communicated loud and clear to Berlin that ...