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Duration 36:58

GIs and POWs: Kew in the Second World War

Local historian Christopher May reveals the wartime history of The National Archives’ Kew site. American servicemen stationed here created the maps used in the Normandy landings of 1944. Later, the same buildings were used to house Italian prisoners of war who helped to clear bomb damage in London.