Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eters number 931 if you can believe that.

It is the 6th of June in the year 2024 which is exactly 80 years since the Allies invaded Europe,

Bastion Europe towards the end of World War II.

And so today the podcast is going to be a bit different,

just a two-man job and we're not going to have three different segments, we're just going to talk all about

D-Day for the whole thing, so it's something a little bit different and I am joined by

Tim Davies how are you sir? Yeah good thank you brilliant. For anyone who doesn't

know which I can't believe they couldn't you have got a history in the services?

Yes yes 20 years I was a naval officer five years and then

Air Force officer for 15 doing as a fast jet pilot on tornado geo4 based out a

lossy mouth and then I instructed about 10 years on various types of Hawk aircraft.

And you have been in combat situations? Well yeah no one never shot at me that I know about and

I never shot at anyone else hopefully but yeah I did two tours of Iraq and a tour of Afghanistan yeah.

Right. Okay so it's a real pleasure, an honor and a pleasure as always have you on. But today I thought it was particularly apt to speak to somebody with the

with the history in the services because we're going to talk about one of the

most intense days of the 20th century, certainly as far as the Western Allies were concerned.

So DJ, the Earth has gone around the Sun 80 times since that day, that longest of days.

So I just want to talk about, hopefully everyone out there won't mind it being a completely different format to usual.

But you know, if we're going to commemorate something I thought maybe let's let's do it properly

So I wanted to talk all about sort of the run-up to it the preparation the long weight and the day itself

Not really too much after what happened on D-Day.

So there's so much to say, I say this on epoch's a fair bit, there's so much you could say,

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