ears. i know you love your rug bhi! by. the last surviving d day landing craft has been forced to postpone its final voyage after a six year renovation project costing £4.7 million. due to choppy waters and gusty wind, the craft was unable to make its final landing at portsmouth, where it will be put on display. 0ur defence correspondentjonathan beale has been keeping track of its journey so far. imposing strings music. archive: the dawn ofjune the sixth comes up like thunder over the invasion coast. it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. d day, 1944, bringing an entire allied army to france to defeat the nazis. and it would never have happened without these. hundreds of landing craft, the workhorse of the invasion. quickly built and just as swiftly discarded after the war. this was britain‘s last known
attacked again. at kohima, 1500 commonwealth troops held back ten times their number. newsreel: men fling themselves across japanese barbed wire. .. eventually, the newly formed 14th army would begin its advance through the jungles of burma. it was difficult, getting throughjungle very often, you know. because more often than not you didn t stick to, you know, well beaten tracks or anything like that. you know, that was asking for trouble. royal marinejim healy was aboard a landing craft during one seaborne assault. i hit a sandbank and of course it stopped me. i gave instructions to down ramp, the gurkhas went out. we came off the sandbank and i could have gone over them and killed them all. fortunately, my lad, the stoker behind me, he put it in reverse and it stopped me. the battles in burma were still being fought when news came of the japanese surrender.
and nagasaki. meanwhile, china and korea view japan s post war apologies as incomplete and insincere. from tokyo, rupert wingfield hayes reports. at tokyo s yasukuni shrine, the narashino brotherhood has come to bow to the spirits of japan s wartime leaders. august is a busy month for these far right nationalists. first, they tried to get to japan s parliament, but the way is blocked. so they crank up the speakers and begin shouting abuse. the liberal democratic party is useless, they shout. you re idiots! with more and more of her troops landing at shanghai. japan committed many crimes during world war ii, but by far the worst was the nanjing massacre. after the city fell, tens of thousands of chinese soldiers and civilians were slaughtered. but not according
bbc news, beirut. the british home secretary, priti patel, says the rising number of migrants reaching the uk across the english channel in small boats is unacceptably high . more than 1,000 people arrived last month, while 235 were detained on thursday, a record for a single day. so far this year, more than 300 boats, carrying almost 4,000 people, are known to have attempted the journey. our home editor, mark easton, reports from dover. calm seas are attracting desperate people. in the early hours, our camera spotted this group among the occupants, several children and a pregnant woman. it s just one dinghy among more than a dozen that yesterday left france seeking a better tomorrow in britain. where are you from? from iraq, we are iraqis, from iraq! iraq? ruthless smugglers convince those in migrant camps that it s now or never, while the waters are benign
is always politically potent. the mp for dover says britain should send them all straight back. what we ve seen is an absolutely unacceptable level of small boats crossing this year, and we do need the french to stop the boats leaving their shore, we need to make sure boats are taken back to france, and that if people do arrive here, that they are sent back to another country. the home secretary, priti patel, is not the first in that position to be embarrassed by the sight of migrants being smuggled into the uk, even more so as a brexiteer who campaigned for britain to control its borders. it s understood she wants the royal navy to join border force cutters on patrol. meanwhile, a repatriation flight is due to leave for france and germany in the middle of next week as british and french immigration officials monitor a crisis that has every possibility of becoming a tragedy. today s beautiful weather has, of course, seen thousands of sun seekers relaxing on the beaches of kent, while j