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D-Day 80: 'We didn't know what we were going into'
Bill Wake from Gateshead was 18-years-old when he was part of the D-Day landings.
He served as a sick berth attendant and has been sharing his memories of arriving in Normandy, in June 1944.
Gerry Jackson reports.
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