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Essex and the secret D-Day plans

How did top secret documents about the D-Day invasions of 1944 be discovered in the boot of a Ford Escort in Essex, 80 years after the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France?

How did top secret documents about the D-Day invasions of 1944 be discovered in the boot of a Ford Escort in Essex, 80 years after the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France?

Jeremy Goldsmith is from the House on the Hill Toy Museum in Stansted Mountfichet, where the plans are now on permanent display, has the answer.

(Picture credit: Jeremy Goldsmith/House on the Hill Toy Museum)

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