D-Day: Cafe owner, 84, recalls moment British troops liberated her family’s Normandy cafe

D-Day: A cafe owner, aged 84, recalled the moment British troops liberated her family's Normandy cafe.Source: PA

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00:00My father said to them, what can we do for you?

00:05So daddy, mummy and the little girls, we all came up.

00:08Daddy opened the front door and at that point, there were casualties.

00:13There was one, sadly, who was the first one killed at the end of the bridge,

00:18Dan, who came and died on the terrace.

00:21And I'm pleased to say that Margaret is here with us today,

00:25mourning her father, and we are in together.

00:29And then many more casualties came in.

00:32The dining room and the kitchen was for them to be taken off their stretcher

00:38into the dining room, whereby then, the tremendous thrashing noise was no more than the glider,

00:44and in one of them came a surgeon and a doctor to attend to the wounded and the dying.

00:51So from that moment on, with mummy being a nurse and two doctors,

00:55we were in a frightful sea of cries of smell and gunfire.

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