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Onetap1 t1_j5vmipf wrote on January 25, 2023 at 9:43 PM

Reply to comment by BostonUniStudent in TIL that the civilian ship pilot in Dunkirk is based off a real person - Charles Lightoller, the second officer of the Titanic who sailed his own ship to save 127 servicemen at Dunkirk by flotiste

He lost 2 sons in WW2, one was an RAF bomber pilot killed on the second day of the war, one killed in 1945 during the Granville Raid.

I've no idea what the thing with the boy on the boat was about.