D-Day Landings: Youngsters Can Live in Freedom

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D-Day veteran Cyril Ager clutched the hand of a four-year-old boy on the beach at Arromanches yesterday afternoon and said: 'We did what we did so youngsters like this could play and live in freedom, without fear.'

Mr Ager, aged 79, from Sunbury-on-Thames, watched emotionally as landing craft approached the shore, recreating the scene he was part of exactly 60 years ago.

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D-Day Landings: Youngsters Can Live in Freedom

Crowds lined the sea wall in the tiny resort as the flotilla of military vessels approached.

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