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act on act and welcome Acton, Acton,

Acton, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk in Normandy

with me James Holland, and I'm joined by, well two great friends of the show,

but I have to say, Woody, poor

Woodage. There's few people who know the Normandy battlefield better than him.

In fact, actually I'm going to put my neck on the line here and just say there's no one who knows the boardmity battlefield better than him. In fact, actually, I'm going to put my neck on the line here and just say there's no one who knows the border feel better than him.

Absolute living legend. World War II TV, he's just done a thousand live, over a thousand live shows now on that.

And if you, people haven't already seen this, you need to clock into it pretty quickly because it's A1.

But anyway, Woody and I go back a bit of a way and we're still waiting for Al, so you are now my compadry for the day but also we're

joined from another friend across the herring pond Mr Chasmina who has come over to

Normandy Ville Common welcome to join us and we have stepped away from the the

melee around the coast we've moved away we haven't seen the jeep for at least 10 miles. And we're in a very sort of,

it's off the beaten track here, but what we're looking at is Operation Blue Coat,

and because it's me, we're looking at the Sherwood Ranges Yeomanomanry because this is the kind of this is the terrain that I wasn't able to look at

when I was writing brothers in arms in lockdown but but I've I've been back to you since

and this is just a fantastic little story here.

We're in the tiny little village of Bricissar, which is just to the east of Comol, which the first infantry

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