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Normandy (France)

Auteur:
Louis PESNEL
Louis Pesnel was born in 1922. He was still at school when the war started. When the Germans arrived in Normandy in 1940 the young man went back to his family’s in Montfarville. He then worked at sea with his father, and in the fields with his mother. The first part of this testimony is the result of an inquiry conducted in 1995 about the STO.
Auteur:
Madame LECOFFRE
In 1979, Madame Lecoffre related her experience of the D-Day landing. Evicted from her house by the Germans in May 1944, she and her fiancé found out that the Allied operations were underway thanks to stock-breeders from Sainte-Mère Eglise they had met at a fair in Valognes. After telling the Germans that they would be defeated, the young woman was arrested and sent to the prison in
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