Britain's Prince Charles uses a megaphone as a spyglass as he jokes ahead of a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the evacuation of 340,000 Allied soldiers June 4. A rag-tag British flotilla dubbed the "great tide of small vessels" plucked 340,000 Allied soldiers from Dunkirk in 1940 braving German fire for 10 days to ferry stranded soldiers from the beaches to navy ships in deeper waters.

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