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D-Day: arrival of 1,475 silhouettes of British soldiers fallen on June 6, 1944 / 34NR9LR
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After crossing the English Channel, around a hundred motorcyclists escorted from Ouistreham to Ver-sur-Mer, in Calvados, 1,475 metal silhouettes representing the British soldiers who died on D-Day, June 6, 1944. These silhouettes will soon be installed in Normandy for the 80th anniversary of the "D-Day". "It will be, I think, a very powerful reminder of the number of British citizens, British soldiers mostly, who lost their lives on D-Day," explains Nicholas Witchell of the British Normandy Memorial. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES