Break out the kleenex, folks. I never knew this happened.
They evacuated 500,000 people in 9 hours, a greater boatlift that Dunkirk.
We live among heroes every day.........they just haven’t been called to it yet
With all due respect to the boats (and their skippers) who made the 9-11 evacuation possible, the comparisons to Dunkirk are a bit exaggerated. The “Little Ships” of the Dunkirk fleet evacuated over 300,000 men, across 20+ miles of open sea, under near-constant attack from the Luftwaffe. Carrying 500,000 stranded office workers and commuters across the relatively calm waters of New York Harbor is impressive, but it’s not in the same league as Dunkirk.