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This is Guy Bayam reporting from Normandy in 1944.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast, I'm Angus Wallace.

One lesson the Allies did get from the fall of France in 1940 was that civilian populations

needed managing to keep them out of the way of military operations.

The result will be as the Allied troops came ashore after Dede in June 1944, with them

will be civil affairs units.

These units were to act as liaisons between the Allied combat troops and the civilians

they encountered.

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