Youtube Of The Ian Campbell Folk Group The D Day Dodgers

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As it is Remembrance Sunday, here is an all too rarely performed angry anti-war song. The phrase D-Day Dodgers was cruelly used to refer to soldiers who didn’t get involved in the D-Day Normandy Landings for the simple reason that they were fighting and dying in other campaigns, especially Italy where many allies died but because the media focussed on the French beach landings, it was assumed that the Italian campaign troops were having an easy time of it. They were not. Far from it. This song is full of barbed sarcasm and anger that shows the harsh reality underlying its lyrics – these men were far from cowards having a relaxing time. The closing lines remind us that many of these heroes never came home. Arthur Chappell