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Television programmes, including the bbc series, trust me i'm a doctor, and on the radio as well. he is a health bureau, it popularised various diets as well. that big search for doctor mosley on the greek island is under way. i will bring you some information we have had from the greek police. a spokesperson has told the bbc that doctor mosley was with his wife on a beach when he decided to leave on foot to go to the centre of the island. the spokesperson also says that doctor mosley�*s wife returned but doctor mosley was not there. that is when she informed the local police department. we ...

Normandy for the commemorations, this yearjust 23. so it is a dwindling band but clearly, there is a sense that it is very important to keep remembering what happened this day on the 6th ofjune in 1940 41 tens of thousands of soldiers landed on those five beaches of normandy. the longest day, as it was called. omaha beach, utah beach for the americans, gold beach and sword beach for the british and juno beach for the canadians. 156,000 allied troops landing. and huge enemy fire of course from the germans although the germans were largely taken by surprise by the attack. but it did mark a turni...

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1944. it was a day when there was that enormous seaborne landing into nazi occupied france, nazi occupied europe. and the allies landed on those five beaches spread across the normandy coast, omaha beach, very close to where this event is going to take place, juno beach for the british and the canadians as well. by british and the canadians as well. by the end of what was known as the longest day, 156,000 allied troops had landed in nazi occupied northern france and they were about to change the course of the war and modern european history. let's listen in to the event now.

It was the largest sea and airborne invasion the world had ever seen and one of the great turning points of 20th century history. alfred was just 17 years old, an able seaman in the royal navy. we didn't really know a great deal because we weren't told a lot. we were told, "you're going," you know, "you'll be in action tomorrow," and all the big guns would be going off, which they did. his battleship, hms ramillies, arrived that morning at sword beach on the north west coast of france. oh, what we saw was the main thing that i can't forget. it was all them young lads, running and climbing up t...