This country is at war with Germany.

We shall go on to the end.

I remember the sheets of flame which came up and almost blinded us from our guns. Hello and welcome to the world war two

Hello and welcome to the World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace. So to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day I attended a special event at the Green Howards Museum, starting at the Regimental

one memorial in Richmond, Yorkshire at 6.30 a.m. which was the time the Green

Howard's landed on Gold Beach. The day was packed with discussion about the regiment and their role on D-Day.

It closed with us having the privilege of getting up close to the only Victoria Cross which was won on the 6th of June.

It was a fantastic day and if you are visiting the Yorkshire Dales go and visit the museum

it's a cracking afternoon out.

So to round off my look at D-Day I'm joined by Steve Erskine from the Green

Howard's Museum and Paul Chil from the Fighting Through podcast whose father landed on Gold Beach with Stan Hollis,

who received Victoria Cross for his deeds that day. In theory, we sat down in the museum on the 5th of June to discuss what D-Day meant for us.

In practice, we had a rather wide-ranging discussion and we never got as far off the beaches as we anticipated.

I hope you find our warwaffle interesting.

I thought a good interest is that we're all got different positions on what it makes to us because if your dad was there, my dad was a slack where we didn't get there through September.

So it's on the second hand and films to me. But obviously, Steve, you're coming it from.

It's completely different being at the museum because is it, is it education, is it tourism, is it commemoration?

You said, you know, so what does day day sort of mean to us?

What's to start, Paul?

I was thinking about something like this the other day and I

because it's partly about heroes partly about commemorating the

event but if you think first and foremost what it's what it's what's it about it's

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