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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Adam Aspinall

Churchill planned to blitz Channel Islands to seize them back from Nazis, new book claims

Winston Churchill planned to shower more bombs on the Channel Islands than Dresden in a bid to recapture them during World War Two, it has been revealed.

The islands, dependencies to the Crown since 1066, were occupied by the Nazis from June 1940 to May 1945.

They were heavily fortified as Adolf Hitler wanted to hold on to his little piece of Britain off the Normandy coast.

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