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THE D-DAY STORY MUSEUM

6 JUNE 1944. A pivotal day in world history and one that must never be forgotten. It was a day when thousands of Allied troops took the war to Germany. Had the day gone badly, the future didn’t bear thinking about.

The D-Day Story Museum in Southsea, on the Hampshire seafront, is hard to

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