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Essex,3 mins

Essex and the secret D-Day plans

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Top secret documents about the D-Day invasions of 1944 have been discovered in the boot of a Ford Escort in Essex, 80 years after the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France. Jeremy Goldsmith is from the House on the Hill Toy Museum in Stansted Mountfichet where the plans are now on permanent display. Picture credit: Jeremy Goldsmith/House on the Hill Toy Museum.

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