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- ActionBristol
- People in story:听
- Barbara Weightman
- Location of story:听
- Fleming, Devon
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4421152
- Contributed on:听
- 10 July 2005
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I was in Devon from 1942 til 1945 in village of Fleming.
They closed 6 villages whilst they had USA forces rehearsing for D Day but one time a U boat followed them back and 4000 people were killed.
One morning they rehearsed gun fire and one of the other maid girls came in screaming: 鈥淚鈥檝e just had Churchill and Eisenhower and Monty in the garden to see how they would be landing for the actual D-Day invasions!鈥
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