WATCH ABOVE: Dozens of “small ships”, hundreds of people gather on 75th anniversary of Dunkirk evacuation
A group of “little ships” set sail for Dunkirk on Thursday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their famous World War II mission.
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Hundreds of people lined up to see around 50 small vessels leave Ramsgate harbour, as Hurricane and Spitfire fighter planes flew past.
The famous boats played a crucial role in British history by saving soldiers from the Dunkirk beaches in May 1940.
Hundreds of fishing boats, pleasure yachts and lifeboats rescued hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian soldiers who had been forced back to the coast in the face of the German advance across Europe.
The evacuation was known as Operation Dynamo and proved to be a pivotal moment of the Second World War.
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