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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...Americans, or for that matter their own soldiers. As early as December 1943, residents were cleared out of coastal villages that the invaders needed for training and sent elsewhere for a year or so. Butcher George Hannaford recalls that when he returned home to the hamlet of Torcross at the age of 13, "a cowshed and a pigsty were demolished out back of my father's shop, and apple trees were down. It was a tank park there, I think." After April 1,1944, no unauthorized civilian travelers were allowed within ten miles of some eastern and all southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Overpaid, Oversexed, Over Here | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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