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Obstacle course is D-day reminder

Visitors to a D-Day museum in Normandy can get a taste of the training soldiers did prior to the 1944 invasion with an obstacle course.
Normandy Victory Museum in Catz, Manche, says its course gets young people interested “in a way that seeing dummy soldiers does not”.