I consider Churchill very over-rated, but like many of his type a great self-publicist. General Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's chief of staff, wrote that "Winston had 10 ideas every day, only one of which was good, and he did not know which it was". Fortunately the Allies had people who could stop him, the Germans could not overrule Hitler.

My thoughts are with those who gave their lives 68 years ago, especially the two local regiments that assaulted the beaches that day, the 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment and the East Riding Yeomanry. My dad was a 'D-Day Dodger', fighting in Italy.