PORTSMOUTH’S unique D-Day Museum is dedicated to all aspects of the decisive Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. Archive film footage shown in the museum’s theatre captures the wartime mood with personal accounts and stories of people who took part. A special gallery houses the 272 foot Overlord Embroidery, which has 34 panels depicting the story from the dark days of the early 1940s to the successful Allied landings, a major turning point in the Second World War.
Southsea Seafront and Portsmouth Harbour were embarkation points, and Southwick House, just north of the city, was where Allied commanders met, close to the headquarters of General Eisenhower, during the operation.
TV historian Dan Snow is an advocate of the museum. ‘Some 156,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy on D-Day. The museum in Portsmouth is the only one in Britain that focuses solely on this vitally important event.’
The museum is holding a two-day conference over the weekend of May 10/11 taking a fresh look at D-Day and the Battle of Normandy from experts in the field. Speakers will include military historian Max Arthur, author of Forgotten Voices of the Second World War and Dr Simon Trew from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
The D-Day Museum is at Clarence Esplanade, Southsea.
www.ddaymuseum.co.uk ,or call 023 9282 6722
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