‘Sorry for throwing grenades in your cellar.’ The unusual fate of the first house liberated in D-Day beach landings
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Bernieres-sur-Mer, France (CNN) — Their target was an elegant, two-story villa sitting solitary on a misty beach. No houses stood nearby, just minefields, military pillboxes and enemy machine gun posts. It was D-Day, and on that overcast morning on June 6, 1944, 10 boats filled with Canadian troops crossed the English
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