David Capps-Tunwell MBE, PhD is retired from the Royal Navy after a career in aircraft engineering and now lives in Normandy, France. He is currently a associated member of the HISTEME (Histoire , Territoires, Mémoires) department at Caen University in France. 

He is researching German logistical support and the impact of Allied tactical bombing during the battle of Normandy using archive resources and geo-archaeological analysis of landscape evidence.