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D-Day and the Liberation of Normandy

WW2: War and Words by BBC

Aug 23, 201513:18Society & Culture

1944’s hush-hush Allied plans to invade occupied France bring success, but hard fighting, as Hitler’s troops are well dug in in Normandy. With Jonathan Dimbleby.

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