Tag: World War 2

The astonishing evacuation of Dunkirk in WW2 and the ‘Little Ships’ that helped

.Reading time 11 minutes.

Operation Dynamo – 26 May to 4 June 1940 saw the evacuation of allied soldiers from Dunkirk to the UK. Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay masterminded Operation Dynamo from a bunker deep within the Dover cliffs. In addition to the navy’s vessels about 850 small private boats (hence the term ‘little ships’) of all shapes and sizes sailed […]

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Einstein’s letter to the US President that started the Manhattan Project

.Reading time 7 minutes.

August 2nd 1939, a letter is drafted by Albert Einstein and fellow Physicist Leo Szilard to be sent to the President, Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR). Preceding this letter a group of leading physicists, including several who had fled Hitler’s Germany, met to discuss their fears of Germany developing a uranium-based weapon. The physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein […]

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