at the high level, there was a real worry that it might not succeed, you know, we had had the diepped which had been a disaster, although we learned many lessons. the prime minister, her husband philip, the defence secretary, penny mordaunt, waving as boudicca goes past. there was real concern that it could be a failure, eisenhower and montgomery all wrote out a report assuming there had been afailure, out a report assuming there had been a failure, that is how worried they were. when you go lower down in the ranks, i think at an operational command level, people are concerned about how it will go, at a junior level, you are concerned about, will idomy level, you are concerned about, will i do my duty? will i look after my men? and the men themselves, will i fight for the chap alongside me, and if you haven't fought before, that isa if you haven't fought before, that is a real worry, and i know from having been involved in fighting, you have real, you know, butterflies in your stomach. you would be slightly worried if people weren't afraid. absolutely, willl do my duty and perform pr

called david is said to be in his late 60s or 70s and is believed to have been possibly having to dieppebuilder with a scottish accent. lots more is a lwa ys a scottish accent. lots more is always on the website. but now it's time for sport today. goodbye. hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: lean, green, pressure putting machine, hannah green wins the womens pga championship. argentina labour to victory over qatar but book their place in the copa america quarter finals. hosts france are through to the last 8 of the women's world cup after overcoming brazil in extra time. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. we start at the women's pga championship at hazeltine in minnesota and a real sporting fairytale. before this weekend, it's probably safe to say that not a huge amount of people had heard of hannah green. she's only been on the tour for two years and didn't have a wikipedia page until sunday. well, the 22—year—old has won her first major championship, the first by an australian in 13 years. the little—known aussie has nev

lessons were learned from the raid on dieppe.ay. in the wake of dieppe the vast and sandy beaches of northern france were now the target for landing. one thing had become startlingly clear. to triumph, all nations, all services, everyone, must work together. in 1943, the allied leaders met for the first time in tehran. it was a summit of great significance, not only because the timing of d—day was discussed, but also, together, they pledged to form a common policy for world peace. we express our determination that our nations shall work together in war and in the peace that will follow. and as to peace — we are sure that our concord will win an enduring peace. we recognise fully the supreme responsibility resting upon us and all the united nations to make a peace which will command the goodwill of the overwhelming mass of the peoples of the world and banish the scourge and terror of war for many generations. we have surveyed the problems of the future, we shall seek the cooperation and active participation of all nations, large a

called david, is said to be in his late 60s or 70s, and is believed to have been possibly heading to dieppecribed as being around 5'9 and of very thin build with a scottish accent. the north korean leader has said he's received a personal letter from donald trump. kim jong—un said he would seriously contemplate the "excellent" and "interesting" content and he saluted the "extraordinary" courage of the american president, according to reports on state media. talks to stop north korea's nuclear programme remain stalled after the failure of the hanoi summit in february. the ethiopian prime minister's chief of staff has been shot dead during an attempted coup. he was killed by a bodyguard at his home in the capital, addis ababa. three other officials were killed in two separate attacks. thousands of runners and cyclists have taken part in a charity race in thailand, marking a year since a group of boys and their football coach became trapped in a cave complex. the team was eventually rescued 18 days later in a mission that caught the attention of the world. kathryn armstrong has more. the start

you think about d—day, it was an audacious idea that there had been a lot of preplanning and the dieppelearned crucial lessons that actually to take a german occupied port was so difficult and so fraught with danger that actually it would be far better to try to get on the normandy ground where there was no obvious harbour but it is sheltered from the worst of the atlantic storms. the idea for the mulberry harbours meant that there was a chance to get all of these men onto this terrain and able to use the relatively flat ground round here to push into the countryside. they were vital in that. you talk about the innovation and what it took to actually capture these beaches, to establish the beachheads and push on into normandy. the funnies were an incredible part of that. those ideas that were dismissed by many ideas but eventually winston churchill sat down and said, there could be something in this. the beach obstacle the men faced when they got off the landing craft we re when they got off the landing craft were relatively formidable. not as formidable as the germans had hoped, but it