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    BIRD'S WORDS

    Jun 13, 2022 3 minutes

    Last week, on the 78th anniversary of the D-Day Landings that drove the Germans out of France and began their defeat in the west, I read Pegasus Bridge by Stephen E Ambrose. I read the book in a day, a rare feat for me. It was gripping, describing how the first action of the D-Day Landings took place just after midnight, in the early hours of June 6.

    It was a formidable achievement carried out by British paratroopers to protect two bridges over the Orne in Normandy that, if blown

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