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In the trench in the farmyard (the one that was dug in 1940) we find three or four Germans: Leo the cook, his helper, and two others, crouching, not proud except for Leo, who stays outside to watch). I go home, dress more warmly, close the doors I go get Bernice to get into the trench, a quick bowl of milk, and we run - just in time! The shells hiss and explode continually. Coming from the sea, a dense artificial cloud its ominous and begins to be alarming the first hiss over our heads. 'Well!' I say, 'Is this it, this time?' 'Yes,' he says, 'I think so, and I'm really afraid we're in a sector that's being attacked that's going to be something!' We're deafened by the airplanes, which make a never-ending round, very low obviously what I thought were German airplanes are quite simply English ones, protecting the landing. I cross the road, run to the farm, come across Meltemps. Airplanes, cannon right on the coast, almost on us. In one of the foxholes in front of the house, I recognize one of the young men from the office he has headphones on his ears, the telephone being removed there. I cross the garden, the men recognize me. "Little by little the gray dawn comes up., but this time around, from the intensity of the aircraft and the cannon an idea springs to mind: landing! I get dressed hurriedly. We join her story as dawn breaks on the 6th of June 1944. Confused, Marie-Louise is unsure whether the aircraft and gunfire are German or Allied. The commotion intensifies and the Germans start packing equipment into trucks in preparation of leaving the area. Marie-Louis kept a diary of her experiences.ĭuring the night of June 5-6, 1944, Marie-Louise's sleep is disrupted by the sound of cannon fire and aircraft overhead. The house stood near the point on the Normandy coast designated for attack by the British forces - Sword Beach. The occupying Germans appropriated the home for their own use after invading France in 1940 but allowed the Osmonts to stay in a few rooms. Marie-Louise Osmont lived in a chateau overlooking the Normandy beaches with her husband, a physician.
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