My grandson should be made to do national service: D-Day veterans who fought the Nazis during WW2 back Rishi Sunak's year-long scheme as they brand Gen Z 'pretty useless' and in dire need of 'some dis

D-Day veterans who fought the Nazis in WW2 have backed Rishi Sunak's year-long National Service scheme for 18-year-olds - branding Gen Z as 'pretty useless' and in dire need of some 'discipline'. D-Day veteran Mervyn Kersh said National Service 'should never have stopped' and labelled the youth of today as 'pretty useless' The Jewish veteran was part of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps which helped supply the 153,000 troops who took part in the famous landings Mr Kersh was only 19 at the time of D-Day but would go on to take part in the Allied advance across Europe and the liberated Nazi concentration camps Pictured: Troops from the 48th Royal Marines at Saint-Aubin-sur-mer on Juno Beach, Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944 Mr Kersh, who landed on the Normandy beaches himself a few days after the first landings, was awarded the Legion d'Honneur, France's highest order of merit for his participation in the campaign in 2015. He said National Service should be brought back because 'you go in as a boy and you come out as a man' The Londoner helped unload his ship's supplies to the Allied troops while guns were firing overhead Mr Underwood had been put on a Merchant Navy ship to help protect it while it made the journey to Russia, but the ship was diverted and ended up in the middle of D-Day British troops at Juno Beach on D-Day in 1944 Many historians describe D-Day as the 'beginning of the end' of the Second World War A third veteran who has come out in support of National Service is 97-year-old Marie Scott who was a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service. Pictured Graves at the Bayeux War Cemetery, the largest Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France Their comments come after Rishi Sunak divided opinion when he announced the compulsory policy of National Service for all 18-year-olds if the Conservatives win the General Election last week.