A Republican senator said the Senate's fight to repeal Obamacare is like the "Miracle at Dunkirk" in World War II that inspired a recent popular film.

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., told a group of constituents the Senate had a setback a few weeks ago when it came up one vote short of continuing efforts to repeal Obamacare. He then compared the Republican effort to the event at Dunkirk, where a fleet of civilian ships helped to rescue British soldiers stuck on the shores of France soon after the country fell to Nazi invaders in 1940.

"The French and British faced a 'setback' in fighting the Germans," Wicker said, according to a report in The Dispatch, a local Mississippi paper. "And that is what the Senate has faced with healthcare."

The dubbed "Miracle at Dunkirk" was the subject of a recent film, simply named "Dunkirk."

Wicker kept on the World War II references by saying Tuesday the GOP will return to the fight against Obamacare, much like Gen. Douglas MacArthur went ashore to reclaim the Philippines, the Dispatch said.