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I have an incredible story about the Liberation. In 1998, I was with a American Veteran and his family who landed on Omaha D-Day + 3; He had with him his notes with a lot of the villages names he and his unit went through. Of course, I checked with him those names and we started to foot back a part of his itinerary. When we arrived at Le Molay Littry, he said that he could remember a little village close-by where he and 5 other guys chased a small group of Germans. When they arrived in this village (unfortunately this one was missing of his list), the Germans had disappeared but the locals welcomed them... He could remember a man who opened his cellar and offered them cider and calvados. He said that the calvados was stored in big barrel. As soon he mentioned "calvados" in big barrel that rung me a bell. The only family having calvados in huge barrels in the vicinity was my grand-father who was the owner of a Calvados distillery. I took him right away to Saonet, and he felt he recognized the place. I called my mother and told her that I may have with me her 1944 Liberator. We spend the whole evening together and after he compared his souvenirs with my mother's ones, it seemed possible that she had been Liberated by this gentleman.