D-Day vets scramble to save an iconic landmark of the mighty military invasio...

The farmhouse was a critical and strategic part of the Allied invasion and commandeered by Major John Howard after the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry captured Pegasus Bridge at 12.16am on June 6, 1944, in one of the first acts of D-Day.

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