James Holland

They're key in the Battle of the Atlantic.

They're key

in air power, their key at D-Day and indeed in the Battle for Italy as well.

So the Canadians should never be forgotten.

But one of the reasons it is the British Navy that dominates in D-Day is because, of course, the incredibly strong

enormous strength of the Royal Navy in the first place, but partly because most of the US Navy is by this stage in the Pacific fighting its own fight.

enormous strength of the Royal Navy in the first place, but partly because most of the US Navy is by this stage in the Pacific fighting its own fight. So it's not slacking by any stretch of the imagination. It is because it's elsewhere doing its bit for the kind of overall ally cause. But D-Day is just extraordinary, you know, and despite the terrible weather,

enormous strength of the Royal Navy in the first place, but partly because most of the US Navy is by this stage in the Pacific fighting its own fight. So it's not slacking by any stretch of the imagination. It is because it's elsewhere doing its bit for the kind of overall ally cause. But D-Day is just extraordinary, you know, and despite the terrible weather,

enormous strength of the Royal Navy in the first place, but partly because most of the US Navy is by this stage in the Pacific fighting its own fight. So it's not slacking by any stretch of the imagination. It is because it's elsewhere doing its bit for the kind of overall ally cause. But D-Day is just extraordinary, you know, and despite the terrible weather,

So it's not slacking by any stretch of the imagination.

It is because it's elsewhere doing its bit for the kind of overall ally cause.

But D-Day is just extraordinary, you know, and despite the terrible weather.

which is such a debilitating factor in the whole thing.

which is such a debilitating factor in the whole thing. I mean, it puts people off course, means many more people get killed on Omaha Beach than they might have done, and on other beaches besides, incidentally. And actually, in terms of lives lost, proportionally, it is the Canadians that suffer the worst, more so than the Americans. It's just there's fewer of them overall.

which is such a debilitating factor in the whole thing. I mean, it puts people off course, means many more people get killed on Omaha Beach than they might have done, and on other beaches besides, incidentally. And actually, in terms of lives lost, proportionally, it is the Canadians that suffer the worst, more so than the Americans. It's just there's fewer of them overall.

which is such a debilitating factor in the whole thing. I mean, it puts people off course, means many more people get killed on Omaha Beach than they might have done, and on other beaches besides, incidentally. And actually, in terms of lives lost, proportionally, it is the Canadians that suffer the worst, more so than the Americans. It's just there's fewer of them overall.

I mean, it puts people off course, means many more people get killed on Omaha Beach than they might have done, and on other beaches besides, incidentally.

And actually, in terms of lives lost, proportionally, it is the Canadians that suffer the worst, more so than the Americans.

It's just there's fewer of them overall.

D-Day has to be seen as an unqualified success.