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June 2004
Listen back through time!
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John Snagge was the first radio announcer to break the news everyone had been waiting for

What was it like to live in West Yorkshire in June 1944 and to hear the announcement that D-Day was underway on the 'wireless'? Listen back to some of the most famous D-Day radio snippets right here!

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BBC: People's War

West Yorkshire History

West Yorkshire Remembrance

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