The D-Day Story
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Telling The D Day Story through the lives of the people who were there.
The epic made personal. The personal made epic.
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To counter mine detectors like this one, the Germans introduced non-metallic mines containing explosives made from wood or glass. These could only be found by systematically prodding the ground with a metal spike.
Object courtesy of National Army Museum
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