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GHOSTS OF DYNAMO

History of War

Issue 142

Armed with the British Admiralty's battle summary, firsthand accounts and a 2023 seabed survey, it's now possible explore a number of Operation Dynamo wrecks to understand what was lost at Dunkirk

I saw one of the stokers I knew who was just sitting there with his seaman's cap on," recalled Bob Bloom, a then-19-yearold sickbay attendant on the destroyer HMS Grenade (interviewed by Hugh Sebag Montefiore for his 2006 book Dunkirk). "I said something to him, but then I noticed his ribs were sticking out through his chest. He was dead. I looked at my hands. The skin was hanging off both of them as if I was trying to pull gloves off.

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