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Actually, and nearly always when they leave the installation, they have tears in their eyes and they say to me, thank you for doing this. the figures represent the actual number of d day fatalities. they re made from reclaimed aluminium and plastic signage, often found on building sites and new housing developments. they re mainly generic silhouettes of the men who died. but molly and dorothy s creations are different. they re based on real photographs. you see it one way with your eyes. you see it another way through the camera. you see it a different way. you see it a different way, looking into the sun. you see a different way, looking away from the sun. and you really feel as though there s some life in them. yeah, it s quite magical. it really is. and it really is a reaction from people. the reaction of the relatives. yeah, everyone, everyone. it s just for me it s been life changing, really has been. after leaving ely high school for girls, molly trained at the norfolk and norwic ....
One day. we forget, i think, the huge one day. we forget, i think, the huge air one day. we forget, i think, the huge air battles taking place in the months huge air battles taking place in the months leading up to d day and the 77 days months leading up to d day and the 77 days that followed, but it was incredibly 77 days that followed, but it was incredibly bitter fighting, right up to the incredibly bitter fighting, right up to the very end and right up to the liberation to the very end and right up to the liberation of paris on the 25th of august liberation of paris on the 25th of august it liberation of paris on the 25th of au . ust. , liberation of paris on the 25th of au~ust. , ., ., ., august. it is one memorial here which we waited august. it is one memorial here which we waited a august. it is one memorial here which we waited a long - august. it is one memorial here which we waited a long time - august. it is one memorial here which we waited a long time to ....
Then all but two of them will be taken away and brought home. but molly and dorothy will stay there forever. we are learning so much about those people who sacrificed so much on those days. that was the story of molly and dorothy, so well told, and quite rightly getting the recognition. people know who they were and what they did. we will hear throughout the morning from so many of the d day veterans involved. you can probably hear behind me this morning, throughout being here in the last hour or so there have been a number of aircraft, presumably practising the fly past around a memorial where we are this morning, and i think you can see the shot nearfrom where we and i think you can see the shot near from where we are, out looking over gold beach itself. it is a ....
Dorothy trained at king s college hospital in london. they were serving on the ss amsterdam. at7a.m, on a foggy sunday morning in a heavy swell, the ship was swinging a tanker off khan when it hit a mine. it was about to make its third cross channel journey to southampton, packed with wounded men. as the ship began to sink, they left their lifeboat and went below deck to try and rescue men from the wards. dorothy was 32. molly died a week before her 28th birthday. she was about to be married. they received the king s commendation for bravery. and the ship s captain described them as the bravest women he d ever known. the standing with giants installation will be in place behind the normandy war memorial on gold beach until the going down of the summer. ....