Good morning. It is a pleasure and an honor to welcome all of you here for our presentation this morning by alex kershaw. My name is side bunting c y bunting. I work at the world war ii memorial and have the continuous honor and privilege of being from thatmany heroes period in our history and to thosee their families and interested in learning that andory more thoroughly making up the deficiencies, i may say, of the extent to which that history is being taught in our schools and colleges, particularly in our schools. The ignorance of the history of our country, and particularly of its military history, is being being ignored it is widely ignored and that has got to be fixed. One of the best people to fix it, of course, is our speaker this morning, alex kershaw. We feel in the 75th year of the anniversary of dday, particularly close to what we call the greatest generation. On memorial day, we honored who have paid the supreme sacrifice and all of our wars, but we have always felt a par
And 6944 american canadian and british cameraman and photographers landed on the beaches of normandy alongside the 150000 men from the allied forces. Around 20 of these reporters soldiers were british and when asked by the services of the army to film the parts of the Operation Overlord that were covered by the british troops between we stream and arrow moms 3 sections that were named juno sword and gold an armed nearly protected their battle be a battle of images that will serve the allied propaganda and will become part of history. When reporting. First difficult scenes of em on jobs and better job making their final preparations before the attack seems taken a few hours before general eisenhower was going to get a number one tells us that the 2nd front and open. The outbreak of the 2nd bout will in britain there was not a single a cameraman well all newsreel filming was done by newsreel companies it took some time until the leaders of they armed forces in britain could be persuaded
Remarkable experience for everyone on board. Dan will be there, and i will be some sherry and a real atmosphere. That is the amazing thing about when you get veterans together, particularly for something which is a commemoration and there isa which is a commemoration and there is a lot of sadness, but actually, when you get like minded individuals who have lived through extraordinary things, there is laughter and tears in equal measure. A lot of laughter in this meeting here. There always is with the Queen Douglas thorne, one of the first people the queen met, he served on the Landing Craft going in and out, he has never been back to normandy, but he now finally wa nts to back to normandy, but he now finally wants to go. I wonder what changes my 75 years later you make that decision, im ready to go back. Before this year, he apparently hasnt even spoken about his experiences in it d day that much, because those Landing Craft helmsman would have seen the worst of it, they would have pus
Is different. It isnt connected to the conservative party. It is a direct pledge from me to my constituents in rossendale and dannen and to the british people that i will not vote to put taxes up. Its for keeps. It is a pledge that i will stick to as long as i am a member of parliament. Well, the Prime Minister, meanwhile, says hes slamming the brakes on the war on motorists. Rishi sunak has arrived in manchester ahead of the party conference, which gets under and hes under way tomorrow and hes expected address the issue expected to address the issue this week. He told sun this week. He told the sun harebrained schemes like low traffic neighbourhoods and 20mph zones are being forced on drivers. The department for transport says guidance will be reviewed to prevent their blanket use in england. Is it blanket use in england. Is it time to cut taxes . Meanwhile, time to cut taxes . Meanwhile, the government says todays train drivers strike is clearly political and planned to coincide with
Sees him or knows his whereabouts to contact them. Whereabouts to contact them. Dozens of conservative mps have signed a pledge to never again vote for an increase in overall taxes. Former Prime Minister liz taxes. Former Prime Minister liz truss and former Party Leader Sir Iain duncan smith are among those to have signed up , along those to have signed up, along with seven former cabinet ministers. The promise means they wont vote for the chancellors autumn statement if it contains us tax rises. Putting further pressure on rishi sunak ahead of the conservative party conference, jeremy hunts told the times he wants to stop the vicious circle of ever rising taxes, but has ruled out cuts in the short term. Former Party Chairman sir jake berry, who organised the pledge, says it holds the chancellor to his word. All too often we have seen these promises and pledges made by mps across the political divide that havent materialised. That is why this tax pledge is different. It isnt connected