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Llangollen's secret stash & the D-Day Landings

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 12:22 UK time, Wednesday, 6 June 2007

A banknote discovered after 63 years in a vintage van at has sparked a mystery stretching back to the D-Day landings.

The five-franc note - with the date of the landings written on it and found with an empty cigarette packet - could have been part of a survival kit issued to soldiers in the 1944 Normandy landings, says .

Meanwhile, today's adds to the intrigue by saying the note was found in Citroen delivery van which ended up in the museum after spending most of Second World War in a French barn, hidden from the occupying Germans.

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