Temps Passé: D-Day and Guernsey - the prelude, the invasion and the aftermath
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Show Notes
On the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings, Express has been exploring what it meant for people in Guernsey.
It was 6 June 1944 when Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in a turning point of the Second World War.
The Channel Islands were liberated nearly a year later.
The impacts reverberated both before, during and after Operation Overlord.
In this podcast, Nick Mann is in conversation with Nick Le Huray, curator of the Island Fortress blog and co-host of the Islands at War podcast...