occupying forces by surprise it came as a shock to local french people as well you know they used catherine martin's met one frenchman who found his family home being taken over by advancing american troops. to normandy beaches the stage for a major act in world history they are closely bound to the personal history of some french people here. we will introduce you to the man whose family home in the aftermath of the normandy landings was transformed into a little just stick headquarter for the american soldiers not far from omaha beach is john paul who is someone's home he's 89 years old and he still lives there many of his memories come from family stories he was 14 when the d.-day landings happened only a few hours after the allied forces had taken the beaches the americans reached his house which at that time was still occupied by german soldiers. this is where the americans came in and you could hear them quite clearly having told us it was all just cold water bottles taking sound every step of. the noise acted as a warning for the german occupiers hold them on says it took the u.s. soldiers 2

took the german occupying forces by surprise it came as a shock to local french people as well catherine martins met one frenchman who found his family home being taken over by advancing american troops. on the normandy beaches the stage for a major act in world history they are close rebounds to the personal history of some french people here. we will introduce you to the man whose family home in the aftermath of the normandy landings was transformed into a little just it had quarter of the american soldiers. not far from omaha beach is john paul who was on my mom's home he's 89 years old and he still lives there many of his memories come from family stories he was 14 when the d.-day landings happened only a few hours after the allied forces had taken the beaches the americans reached his house which at that time was still occupied by german soldiers. they'll clean and i think is where the americans came in you could hear them quite clearly i've been told because of soldiers carry water bottles was making sound every step of. the noise acted as a warning for the german occupiers hold the man sa

eventually it will look like we have names of course but there are research heard in that report by catherine martin's dark horses maybe somebody will pop up we haven't talked about yet and so we're pretty certain that this compromise will not completely emerge at least tonight here and there probably will need to be at least one more special summit in brussels yeah that's one ask you look into your crystal ball because we know that the new european parliament starts work on july 2nd to me we're going to have to have some resolution by then aren't we. yes and i hope you share my excitement of all this in each although it's very complicated but on the 2nd of july 1 of the top jobs will presumably be given out to someone and that is the president of the european parliament because the 2nd of july the european parliament will elect their president at least that's what they've said in the probably not going to back back off of that and that means you have the 1st domino to fall but what the leaders here the european council want to do is have the full package make sure that they like i said earlier no hav

but just just remember that because we have a great piece also on hold here that my colleague catherine martin's produced and it plays just you know within walking distance from where i am standing right now she caught up with one of the the french men who who provided shelter and also in this case the headquarters for the americans that arrived here at this beach at omaha beach i highly recommend this piece take a look. the normandy beaches the stage for a major act in world history they are closely bound to the personal history of some french people here. we will introduce you to the man whose family home in the off the lot of the normandy landings was transformed into little justin headquarter for the american soldiers not far from omaha beach is john paul who was on my mom's home he's 89 years old and he still lives there many of his memories come from family stories he was 14 when the d.-day landings happened only a few hours after the allied forces had taken the beaches the americans reached his house which at that time was still occupied by german soldiers. this is where the americans cam

are the veterans that are still alive and by the way that house that you saw in the report by catherine martin's right right now just a couple minutes ago that is within walking distance from where we are standing really you cannot take a step here in this whole area omaha beach in the back that catherine mines was talking about the graves of the u.s. soldiers behind me without encountering history that's how history charged this whole area is. not only an area steeped in history this entire day is steeped in so much money well what does d.-day mean for for your generation in france today this event of 75 years ago is echo still being heard yes it is still being heard but less and less so because the last direct witnesses are slowly disappearing and it's up to people far from my generation to actually make sure that we don't forget the messages that they had that we don't forget the sacrifices and right now we had to cross was between history and memory and politics as well because such come immigration's are so an opportunity for where they do is to meet and discuss more contemporary issues whi