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ఈనెల 30న వైఎస్ జగన్ ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ ముఖ్యమంత్రిగా ప్రమాణస్వీకారం చేస్తారని వైకాపా నేత ఉమ్మారెడ్డి తెలిపారు.
సీఎంగా జగన్ ప్రమాణస్వీకారం
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Published : May 23, 2019, 3:09 PM IST
ఈ నెల 30న ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ సీఎంగా జగన్ ప్రమాణస్వీకారం చేస్తారని వైకాపా నేత ఉమ్మారెడ్డి వెంకటేశ్వర్లు తెలిపారు. మే 25న పార్టీ ఏపీ శాసనసభాపక్ష భేటీలో జగన్ను తమ పక్షనాయకుడిగా ఎన్నకుంటామని వివరించారు. పార్టీ అధినేత జగన్‌మోహన్‌రెడ్డి సాయంత్రం మీడియాతో మాట్లాడతారని వెంకటేశ్వర్లు తెలిపారు.
ప్రమాణస్వీకార తేదీని ప్రకటిస్తున్న వైకాపా నేత
ఈ నెల 30న ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ సీఎంగా జగన్ ప్రమాణస్వీకారం చేస్తారని వైకాపా నేత ఉమ్మారెడ్డి వెంకటేశ్వర్లు తెలిపారు. మే 25న పార్టీ ఏపీ శాసనసభాపక్ష భేటీలో జగన్ను తమ పక్షనాయకుడిగా ఎన్నకుంటామని వివరించారు. పార్టీ అధినేత జగన్‌మోహన్‌రెడ్డి సాయంత్రం మీడియాతో మాట్లాడతారని వెంకటేశ్వర్లు తెలిపారు.
ప్రమాణస్వీకార తేదీని ప్రకటిస్తున్న వైకాపా నేత RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
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Ouistreham - 9 May 2019
1. Wide of French and British flags by Sword Beach
2. Wide of sea and beach
3. Beach with tourists, flags and "Monument of the Flame" memorial monument, tribute to military personnel who landed on beach on D-Day on June 6 1944
4. Wide of monument, flags and statue of Lovat, whose forces landed on beach on D-Day
5. Close-up of statue of Lovat, whose forces landed on Sword Beach on D-Day
6. French veteran Leon Gautier walking with walking sticks towards entrance of museum dedicated to 4th Commando (known as the 'Kieffer Commando')
7. Gautier walking inside museum
8. Photo of Commander Philippe Kieffer, member of the Free French Forces, who led the only French Commando which participated in D-Day landing
9. Gautier looking at photos on wall
10. Set-up of Gautier talking to reporter in his living room
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Leon Gautier, 96-year-old French veteran:
"For us it was special. We were happy to come home. We were at the head of the landing. The British let us go a few metres in front: 'Your move, the French,' 'After you.' We were all happy to come back home because most of us had left France in 1940, four years earlier, so for us it was the Liberation of France, a return to the family."
12. Gautier pointing at group photo inside museum
13. Close-up of photo of Gautier (in the middle, number 50) among other soldiers who participated in special training with British Commandos in Scotland (photo taken in July 1943, at the end of their training)
14. Close-up of names of soldiers who participated in training
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Leon Gautier, 96-year-old French veteran:
"When I saw this armada gathering in front of the Isle of Wight, I said 'it's not possible, we can't lose.' It was grand, the armada."
16. Gautier next to a scale-model of landing, as he talks to reporter
17. Close-up models of two military ships on which French troops boarded onto
18. Gautier talking to reporter as he looks at scale-model
19. SOUNDBITE (French) Leon Gautier, 96-year-old French veteran:
"It (the landing) didn't go too badly. Of course, we were being shot at, but we shot at them (the Germans) too. The hardest part was to go. The orders, we had, were to run as quickly as possible towards the top of the beach where the bunkers were because the closer we were from the bunkers, the less we were in danger. And when we arrived near the walls of the bunkers, we threw grenades through the holes."
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Colleville-Montgomery - 10 May 2019
20. Wide of Hillman fortified site, a command post for German forces in the area led by German General Krug, with European, French, British and German flags in the background
21. Various of German underground bunkers
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Ouistreham - 9 May 2019
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Leon Gautier, 96-year-old French veteran:
"I was a kid, I was 12 to 13 years old and that's the way it was. The old generation had a feeling of hatred against Germany. They called them (the Germans) the "Boches" etc. There was a hatred that we felt. We, the youngsters, we were steeped in this hatred."
23. Gautier holding photographs of him
24. Gautier holding photographs of him in military uniform taken in the early 1940's
25. Gautier holding photograph of him in Navy uniform taken in 1942
26. Gautier holding photograph of him and his British wife Dorothy Banks, taken shortly after their wedding in October 1944
27. SOUNDBITE (French) Leon Gautier, 96-year-old French veteran:
"As time goes by, as you grow old and you think that maybe you killed a father, made a woman a widow and the children. That's what war is. You are here to kill people, wage war. And when you get older, you become friends with them (your former enemies) and maybe there are children grieving over the death of their father and that, it's not easy to live with."
28. Wide of entrance to a museum dedicated to the 4th Commando
29. Gautier talking to two British tourists, UPSOUND (English): "What do you think of it? What do you think of the museum? Oh yes, very good. This is our first one today. Yes, good. Big respect. Okay. Thank you very much."
30. Gautier walking inside museum with tourists UPSOUND (English): "Do you like this little museum?"
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Colleville-Montgomery - 10 May 2019
31. Close-up of a banner on a pole showing a photo of Gautier reading (French & English) "Never forget. WWII heroes. Leon Gautier. Kieffer Commando"
32. Pan-right from banner to beach and sea on other side of the road
STORYLINE:
British and French flags are fluttering by a flame-looking memorial on a beach in Ouistreham in memory of the bravery of commando forces who landed on Sword Beach on D-Day almost 75 years ago.
Among the tens of thousands of American, British and Canadian soldiers who landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944, a hardened and determined group of elite French commandos ensured that France had D-Day exploits to be proud of, too.
French Capt. Philippe Kieffer's commandos came ashore alongside British forces on Sword Beach, under the British command of The Lord Lovat and spent 78 consecutive days on the battlefield, with their numbers inexorably dwindling from one firefight to the next.
Of the 177 military personnel who waded ashore on the morning of June 6, 1944, just two dozen survived their deployment unscathed.
There are now just three surviving members of the 177-strong unit. They include 96-year-old Leon Gautier. His memories are as vivid as ever.
"For us it was special. We were happy to come home. We were at the head of the landing. The British let us go a few meters in front, (saying) 'Your move, the French', 'After you,'" Gautier recalls. "Most of us had left France in 1940, four years earlier, so for us it was the liberation of France and the return to family."
Before embarking on a ship in June 1944, Gautier saw the D-Day armada gathering by the British coast. "It was grand, the armada," he remembers.
After the bloodshed of World War I, Gautier's generation had grown up on a diet of hatred for neighbour Germany.
He was just 17 when he joined the Navy in 1940.
When France fell in June that year to the Nazi blitzkrieg, he was shipped to England, where a French general, Charles de Gaulle, was rallying his countrymen and women who refused to surrender.
Kieffer was among them.
Volunteering, as Gautier did, for his commando unit meant undergoing a brutal and dangerous training course in Scotland.
They became so hardened, that on D-Day they came ashore carrying four days-worth of rations and ammunition, 30 kilograms in all, sprinting up the beach with their heavy sacks.
Their initial objective was to reach a heavily fortified bunker.
Although it was just a few kilometers (miles) away, it took them four hours of fighting to get there and take it.
On the beach, they cut through barbed wire defenses under a hail of bullets.
"We were being shot at, but we shot at them (the Germans) too," Gautier remembers. "When we arrived near the walls of the bunkers, we threw grenades through the holes," he added.
Going through old black and white photos, Gautier proudly shows a picture of him and his British wife, Dorothy, who he married four months after D-Day. They met in 1943 when he was stationed in England.
Seriously injured by a German artillery shell during the war, she lived with a metal plate over the hole in her skull and had persistent headaches.
She died in 2016 at 91.
Gautier said he doesn't like talking about the war.
"The older you get, you think that maybe you killed a father, made a widow of a woman," he said. "It's not easy to live with," he added with emotion.
Yet he devoted much of his life since the war doing his duty to its history, making sure that timeless, vital lessons aren't forgotten by giving countless interviews, taking part in countless commemorations and helping out at a museum in Ouistreham that commemorates the battle.
On June 6, Gautier will attend a ceremony led by French President Emmanuel Macron in Colleville-Montgomery in honour of French WWII soldiers.
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