Dunkirk

[Dennis McGuckin]

Just back from seeing the movie Dunkirk.
Correct me if I am wrong.
I am sure that several MN vessels took part in the evacuation?
Never saw one in the movie.
RN ships, and of course the 'little ships'.Another question I have wondered about.
Were any female MN members lost during the war?
I know nurses were aboard troop ships, but were stewardess still serving?
Don't believe nurses were signed on as MN crew.

[Doc Vernon]

Still liked the old Version,but to be fair I have not yet seen the new one So??
Cheers
Dunkirk (1958) - IMDb

Watched the Colditz Story and The Cruel Sae again Yesterday too,and they were good.

[Doc Vernon]

Enjoy if you have the time!

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...2EE3&FORM=VIRE

[Doc Vernon]

Details of merchant ships can also be found in books on specific operations, such as:

• Ruegg, Bob, and Hague, Arnold, Convoys to Russia: Allied Convoys and Naval Surface Operations in Arctic Waters 1941–1945 (Kendal: World Ship Society, 1992). 940.542.1(47)
• Winser, John de S, The D-Day Ships (Kendal: World Ship Society, 1994). 940.542.1'1944'
• The Dunkirk List, compiled by Lt. Col. G P Orde as the official history of the evacuation, named 'Operation Dynamo'. Though never published, copies are available in several places including the National Maritime Museum (there is a separate information sheet on the List, see next steps below).
• The Merchant Ships series of books, compiled, drawn and edited by E C Talbot-Booth (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd). Issues for 1936, 1940, 1942 and 1949 are in the National Maritime Museum and other specialist libraries.

Where a merchant vessel was part of an Admiralty-controlled convoy, then the Convoy Lists (ADM 199/2184 to ADM 199/2194) have been indexed both by convoy number and by ship name in The National Archives Catalogue.

Read more at Research guide C10: The Merchant Navy: World War Two | Royal Museums Greenwich | UNESCO World Heritage Site In London

[Doc Vernon]

See this Deb from Keith!

http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/t...4-dunkirk.html

Also this Den
Remembering story behind 'Dunkirk' | Columns | valdostadailytimes.com

[Doc Vernon]

Valour at Sea - Canada's Merchant Navy - South African War - History - Remembrance - Veterans Affairs Canada

[happy daze john in oz]

How accurate a movie is on such events is very often left to the viewer to decide.
For me the film was not so much about actual events but an overall portrayal of how it was for the men on the beach and in the air. An effort to try and understand what it was like and how the men reacated.

[Peter F Chard]

#4 Another good read is " The Battle of the East Coast ( 1939 - 1945 ) by J.P. Foynes. It is 417 pages long and published in 1994 by the Author. The ISBN number is 0 952155524.There is a quote at the start of the book and is a conversation at Harwich between Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in his last Holmes story " His Last Bow ".... Holmes pointed back to the moonlit sea, and shook a thoughtful head.
There's an east wind coming, Watson
I think not Holmes, it is very warm
Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be
cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us will wither before its blast".
Regards Peter in NZ.

[Doc Vernon]

#1, Few other inaccuracies listed here, but overall seems to be a fairly decent
re-enactment.

7 Times Dunkirk Got History All Wrong - YouTube
Video for youtube, original film ''dunkirk''▶ 5:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgRyu3Rmw8s

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Doc FWD to hubby but only shows adverts, do you have another link please as couldn't find one myself.

Funnt that Marian as it plays AOK here?

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...E3&FORM=VRDGAR

[j.sabourn]

Same here Vernon and don't live too far away as he crow flies. Js
Last one opens ok cheers js