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Service du Travail Obligatoire (Compulsory Work Service)− A parenthesis of several months
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...
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My Life during the D-Day Landing 10 kilometres east of Cherbourg
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...
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