More than 80 years on from the Dunkirk and Operation Dynamo, in which hundreds of thousands of British and French soldiers were saved, researchers are identifying the ships that sunk as they helped in the heroic effort. With an array of technology, archaeologists on board the Andre Malraux are able to scan the wrecks, cataloging an unseen underwater heritage. "It's quite an emotive feeling" says Mark James, a geophysicist from Historic England, "you realise the human sacrifice that was made".
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01:43 It's quite an emotive feeling seeing some of these wrecks
01:47 come up on the screen.
01:48 There's obviously a great loss of life during Operation
01:51 Dynamo and the story that goes behind it.
01:53 So for me personally, you kind of realize the human
01:56 sacrifice that was made that had enabled these wrecks to be
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