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A regional daily is planing to live-tweet the events of the D-Day landings in real time as it begins the countdown to the 70th anniversary of the event.
Thousands of soldiers left the Portsmouth area to attack Hitler’s grip on Europe in June 1944, ultimately changing the course of the Second World War.
Now Portsmouth daily The News has launched a special Twitter feed which will aim to report the events of the Normandy invasion as they happened.
The feed @RealTimeDDay will be tweeting an extensive timeline at the exact day and time the events happened 70 years ago.
Defence correspondent Sam Bannister said: “We’re hoping the launch of our @RealTimeDDay Twitter feed will draw interest from even more people and get them following the story as the June 6 anniversary approaches.
“The number of tweets posted will begin to gather pace as D-Day nears, and the troop movements and action begin to escalate. D-Day itself will see updates posted almost every minute of the day.”
Thousands of soldiers left the Portsmouth area to attack Hitler’s grip on Europe in June 1944, ultimately changing the course of the Second World War.
Now Portsmouth daily The News has launched a special Twitter feed which will aim to report the events of the Normandy invasion as they happened.
The feed @RealTimeDDay will be tweeting an extensive timeline at the exact day and time the events happened 70 years ago.
Defence correspondent Sam Bannister said: “We’re hoping the launch of our @RealTimeDDay Twitter feed will draw interest from even more people and get them following the story as the June 6 anniversary approaches.
“The number of tweets posted will begin to gather pace as D-Day nears, and the troop movements and action begin to escalate. D-Day itself will see updates posted almost every minute of the day.”