Antiques Roadshow leaves viewers in tears after paying tribute to the Normandy landings with 'deeply humbling, moving and astonishing' D-Day special - while Fiona Bruce impresses viewers by speaking fluent French

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Antiques Roadshow leaves viewers in tears after paying tribute to the Normandy landings with 'deeply humbling, moving and astonishing' D-Day special - while Fiona Bruce impresses viewers by speaking fluent French

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The BBC was praised on Sunday evening after dedicating the latest episode of Antiques Roadshow to the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. An estimated 12,000 Allied troops lost their lives during Operation Overlord, a planned landing operation on the beaches of Nazi occupied Normandy at the height of World War II. The invasion on June 6, 1944 is recognised as one of the war's most defining - and harrowing - conflicts, and veteran survivors paids testimony to its casualties during Sunday evening's show.
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