Dominic Sandbrook

Well, we will see.

Yeah, loads of British are being mowed down.

So the plan is you will land, you'll establish your beachhead, and then you will push inland.

The terrain is not ideal.

It's these kind of scrublands, these hills, these deep ravines.

But the planners say, don't worry, the Turks will crumble as soon as our lads get ashore.

Will they?

We'll find out.

We'll start with the ANZAC, 16,000 of them.

Remember, these are untrained soldiers, untested, and they're attempting something very difficult, a landing at sea at night against machine guns and barbed wire.

Has this ever happened before?

It's insane.

And this is why D-Day, this is arguably why D-Day is so remarkable.

Well, it's partly because they had the lesson of Gallipoli.

I mean, Gallipoli is at the back of their minds all through D-Day because it was such a shambles.

So to go back to the Anzacs, they've been given a very narrow window of time between 3 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in the morning.

So this is the time between, you know, the moon will vanish at 3, the sun will come up at 4, this is your time.

The assumption is it will be very straightforward and it doesn't turn out that way.

So this is Private Walter Stagels of the 3rd Australian Battalion.

He was part of the second wave that went ashore.