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D-Day in France: 'It was a time of hope'

French people who witnessed their country's liberation during World War II tell their stories ahead of Saturday's 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Here, BBC correspondent Robert Hall speaks to people in Saint-Mere-Eglise in northern France - one of the first towns the United States liberated from German occupation.

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