WW2TV - Uncommon Courage

I ought to have put this link up months ago. This was a chat about Uncommon Courage with D-Day historian and battlefield guide Paul Woodadge on his WW2TV channel. It was first time I’d done something like this and I did fell a bit tense. But Paul was really good to talk to, interested in people at war, whoever they were. - gender, grandeur, sexual orientation - whatever. So I probably went on too long but here’s the link anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n07HB3p6IE

Photo taken by 20 year old Stewart Platt, in command of this Tank Landing Craft

Because Paul is a real D Day expert, he totally got this photo and was able to appreciate its uniqueness. Tomorrow (Dec 6th) he’s invited me on the show again. This time I’m to talk about Wren Stoker 65152 Pierrepont who was helping to tow home some broken-down landing craft early in the morning of D-Day minus one, when the fleet had set out and had difficulty watching the rest of D-Day ships steaming into the distance ‘because of the misty curtain that would persist in falling in front of our eyes’. She was one of the Wren ratings who’d been supporting the long preparations - and the wait for the weather - and now wondered which of her friends she’d see home again…