Dunkirk Harbour - is the harbour the same location/layout as the one used by the rescue ships ?

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  1. George1989

    George1989 New Member

    Hi there,

    I'm just doing some research for a shot list that I am putting together for a documentary on WW2 Poetry. We would want to do some filming in and around Dunkirk. Just wondering if the harbour layout is the same as it was in 1940 during the evacuations, and where I can find East mole today as that seems to be an important site for most of the evacuations.

    Thank you so much

    George
     
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  2. Owen

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  3. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    wartime aerial photo . no specific date.
    rotate 180 degrees to make it match with images posted earlier.


    ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.
    © IWM (C 5684)
    Vertical aerial photograph taken over the port of Dunkirk during a daylight attack by Lockheed Venturas of No. 2 Group. Smoke is rising from bombs exploding in the dock area between the Port D'Echouage and the Bassin Freycinet, and also on Mole No. 3.

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    ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.. © IWM (C 5684)IWM Non Commercial Licence
     
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  4. Richard Lewis

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  5. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    I completely forgot about that thread. :whistle:
    Cheers.
     
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  6. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Lots of pictures in my Walking in the Footsteps of the BEF thread to do with evacuation points on the beaches, mole and inner harbour including some then and now pictures.

    The mole was destroyed in a storm after the war and was replaced with a concrete one.
     
    Drew5233, Jun 8, 2014
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  7. George1989

    George1989 New Member

    Dear All
    Thank you for responses. I now have a much better idea of what I hope to film.

    Drew, I will look of you Walking in the Footsteps thread...

    Thank you so much

    George
     
    George1989, Jun 9, 2014
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  8. jonheyworth

    jonheyworth Senior Member

    When are you planning this ? I'm taking 50 Tommies there next May
     
    jonheyworth, Jun 16, 2014
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