Remembering Dunkirk

"Can you imagine? With all their ammunition, their arms? It's incredible," said Palacio.

The hastily arranged fleet of about 700 vessels, ranging from pleasure craft to fishing boats and paddle steamers and lifeboats, worked under a hail of German bombs to take the troops off the beaches and ferry them to larger ships.

Wartime prime minister Winston Churchill called it a "miracle of deliverance" and the evacuation is seen as one of several events in 1940 that determined the outcome of the war.

No, I'm not old enough to remember Dunkirk (and my Filipino Husband was just a kid here at the time).

The evacuation prevented a quick and easy German victory.

and no, it's not about Dunkirk per se (although the husband was involved in the evacuation), but when I think of the Battle of Britain, I think of Mrs. Miniver...film is on line at youtube: