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D-Day: Secret South England Stories Episodes

  1.

    How D-Day was launched from an old Dorset farm

    Before the beaches came a daring night mission that launched from an old Dorset farm.

  2. A secret school of dark crafts

    The men and women who trained to kill and disappear in the Hampshire countryside.

  3. A secret rendezvous in a Hampshire village

    Why did allied leaders secretly meet in Droxford in the Meon Valley just before D-Day?

  4. A hush-hush pipeline and the Isle of Wight

    How a secret piece of engineering, hidden on the Isle of Wight, fuelled Allied success.

  5. "Overpaid, Oversexed and Over Here"

    What is the legacy left behind by American troops from WWII in Hampshire and Dorset?