Hi this is Ryan from the Imperfect's podcast where we speak to well known people whose lives may seem perfect from the outside

but like all of us their lives are often imperfect. We've spoken to people like Elizabeth Day, Pat Cummins, and the King of England, Gary Barlow.

I just remember being there going, what am I doing? How did I get here?

And I was really good at hiding it, but I knew it had to stop it had to stop.

Search for the imperfects on the app you're listening on. This is John Batchelor,

conversation with my good friend Gregory Coppley about D-Day,

Gregory's mid-Atlantic coming home on the Queen Mary, and I asked him to explain to the younger

audience what D-Day means, what it represents, what it was.

Recent polling shows that poor history has been taught our young people these last half century,

and less than half of them understand the significance of the landing on the Normandy

coast.

Here's Gregory Coppley, the meaning of D-Day, especially for the people of Britain and the

Commonwealth and the United States and Canada and France all

participating in their landings was a near thing. Here's Gregory Coppley, more of

this tonight.

Thank you.

Well, it certainly represented at the beginning or the midpoint of the end of the Nazi global totalitarian attempt to conquer the world.

At that point, once the Normandy invasion was successful, it It showed this ultimate, it pricked the bubble if

you like of the solidarity and strength of the Nazi capability throughout Europe.

So it was it was a massive effort and a risky one too.

The diversionary attempts to persuade the Germans that, or the Nazis

that the West was not going to attack at Normandy were very problematic but they worked and yet

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