The half-timbered home that many Canadian soldiers saw has been refurbished, but still looks much like it did on D-Day.
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‘Sorry for throwing grenades in your cellar.’ The unusual fate of the first house liberated in D-Day beach landings
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.
