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D-day stories

4 June 2004

  • 'Someone said the Germans had gone mad'

  • 'I never accepted our capitulation'

3 June 2004

  • 'We hoped to drive the allies back into the sea'

    Sergeant Alexander Uhlig took part in one of the last successful actions fought by the Germans in Normandy. In 1944, he was awarded the Knight's Cross for bravery. He tells his story.

2 June 2004

  • 'We thought our time had come'

  • 'We had waited for that day for so long'

  • John Eaves

  • James Gibson

  • James Bradley

  • 'Women were also anxious to do what we could for our country'

  • 'It was our job to get them patched up and sent back by plane to England'

  • 'German fighter planes ripped the dentist's tent to shreds while he was doing surgery'

1 June 2004

  • 'I had killed a human being'

    Frank Rosier was a 17-year-old HMV apprentice when he was mobilised in the British army in 1943. He joined the Gloucestershire regiment as a private soldier and landed on Gold beach on June 6 of that year. He tells his story to Gwladys Fouché.

9 May 2004

  • Gerlad Henneman

  • Désiré Dajon-Lamare

  • Walt Marshall

  • Franz Gockel

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