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Re: Return from Dunkirk
The youngest veteran of Operation Dynamo was 14-year-old Albert Barnes from Dagenham, who was tea boy on a Thames tug. His boat, Sun XII, was called straight off a job and into action and only returned home 14 days later, having carried out a daring series of rescues.
Albert's mother, bursting with pride, showed off his socks to their neighbours. They were so stiff with dirt that they stood up on their own like a pair of wellingtons-but they'd seen action at Dunkirk.
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