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Radio Newcastle,3 mins

D-Day 80: 'We didn't know what we were going into'

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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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