If anyone is interested historian Paul Woodadge is hosting a number of other historians (via Zoom) on his WW2TV channel giving talks on various aspects of the day, he also has friends on the ground who are touring the area to tie in with the historians talks
Here is the current schedule:ALL TIMINGS - French Hours - BST+1 (GMT+2) 9.00am Sean Claxton - Bombing on DDay - http://www.normandyinsight.com/ 9.30am Matt Bone - 2 TAF missions - https://hawkertyphoon.com/ 10.00am Stephen Fisher - Naval Planning and Ops - https://spitfiresofthesea.com/ 10.30am Ben Mayne - East Riding Yeomanry - https://ww2nation.com/ 11.00am Neil Barber - Dives Bridges and Pegasus Bridge - https://pegasus-bridge.co.uk/ Colin Taylor - http://www.objectivedday.com/ 12.00pm Andrew Roberts - Churchill and Overlord - https://www.andrew-roberts.net/ 12.30pm Neil Storey - Royal Norfolks on DDay Adam Schuch-des Forges - East Yorks on Dday 1.30pm Giles Milton - DDay The Soldiers’ Stories - http://www.gilesmilton.com/home 2.00pm Peter Caddick-Adams - Von der Heydte and Saint Come du Mont - https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Caddick-... 2.45pm Jonathan Ware @ReassessHistory and Gareth Davies - The use of AVRE tanks on DDay 3.15pm Mike Bechthold - Winnipeg Rifles on Juno Beach - https://mikebechthold.com/ 4.00pm James Holland - Airpower in Normandy - https://www.griffonmerlin.com/ 4.50pm Chris Woffenden - British SPG Artillery. 5.00pm Georgina Ratcliffe - Homefront UK. Jared Frederick - Homefront USA - http://historymatters.biz/about-jared... 5.30pm Joe Muccia - Holdy Gun Battery - https://ssgtmooch.wixsite.com/joe-muccia 6.00pm Linda Hervieux - Waverly Woodson, black medic on Omaha - http://www.lindahervieux.com/ 6.15pm Patrick K O’Donnell - Pointe du Hoc - https://www.patrickkodonnell.com/ 7.00pm Joe Balkoski - Omaha, Dog White. John McManus - Omaha, Easy Red - https://johncmcmanus.com/ 8.00pm Alex Scott - 24th Lancers. 8.15pm Ed Ruggero - La Fiere - http://edruggero.com/ 8.55pm Robin Savage - Photographing WWII veterans 9.10pm Kevin Hymel - USN on DDay - https://www.usni.org/people/kevin-m-h... 9.45pm Mark Zuehlke - Queen’s Own Rifles at Bernières-sur-Mer - https://zuehlke.ca/ 10.30pm Adam Lunney - RAAF Spitfires - https://adamlunney.com/ 11.00pm Chaz Mena - The DDay speeches of FDR and Churchill - https://www.chazmena.com/ This DDay show is sponsored by http://www.multimanpublishing.com/ Producing Advanced Squad Leader and other historical board wargames. This show has only been possible with the help of my official "Roving Reporters", the following battlefield guides : Colin Taylor - http://www.objectivedday.com/ Mike van den Dobbelsteen - https://alliedvictorytours.com/ Florent Plana - https://ww2veteransmemories.org/ Duncan Hollands - https://www.airborne44.com/ Magali Desquesne - https://www.dday4you.com/ Gwenael Pierre, Romain Bréget and Matt Key
Its been an enjoyable varied range of talks so far, makes me want to have a proper visit to Normandy (I've been twice but doing living history so very limited in what I saw). Chris Woffenden who had a short talk earlier is an occasional poster on here as Attacker2
