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‘The only prospect other than victory was slavery – enslavement for generations’
Daniel Powell talks to D-Day veteran JIM RADFORD about that momentous event of the second world war and why he subsequently went on to campaign for the peace movement and against homelessness
Supply landings at Omaha Beach, mid-June 1944

AT FIRST glance, the picturesque French coastal town of Arromanches in Normandy is a quiet, peaceful place; yet it holds a remarkable history.  

Above its beaches where children play happily building sandcastles in the summer breeze, the coastal clifftops are profoundly indented with shell-battered bunkers, the concrete and steel remnants bearing the scars of a most epic 20th-century event — D-Day, June 6 1944.

As world leaders meet for the 75th anniversary commemorations, French families will warmly fete elderly British veterans gathering at their inns, recalling the town’s longest day. 

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