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The secret D-Day scientists and engineers

How a physicist and engineer worked on secret projects to make sure D-Day went ahead 80 years ago.

Jack Darbyshire grew up in the quarrying town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, watching a community awash with poverty as the slate industry slowly collapsed after World War One. "After he got his physics degree he went on to London to the Admiralty Research Laboratory in Teddington," explained Prof Tom Rippeth, from Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences. "It's really interesting that he returned to his home area where he was born and bred, and we see what is a massive experiment at Conwy Morfa," said Dr Mari Wiliam, a lecturer in modern history at Bangor University.

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