thank you for listening. 95—year—old frank baugh.of providing fighter cover for troops landing on d—day fell to pilots from a number of allied nations. polish spitfire pilot robert nawarski of number 302 squadron had a grandstand view of the landings. from about the middle of april 1944 the squadron was sent to chailey which was not far from lewes in sussex. it was a very busy time. on d—day itself we were woken up at about 3am and we all headed to the briefing room. that's when they actually told us the invasion had started and we were to patrol a certain area in normandy as fighter cover. we took off about 4am, it was just becoming light and the sight was quite incredible. you could see an armada of ships of different sizes all streaming towards france. by that time, they were virtually there, but there were so many of them you felt that you could almost walk across them to france. when we got to our beach, which as it happened was quite superfluous, because there was no way that enemy aircraft could have attacked us. the weather w