Normandy Invasion Beaches Museums to visit?

[mrclark303]

Evening all, having a few beers on the Normandie on the way home, good trip, successful business and most of the Invasion front covered, Overlord museum inparticular superb as were the German Mausoleum and the US cemeteries, started at St Mary Englies and worked round to Pegasus Bridge, unfortunately the museum had closed much to my annoyance, but an extra bonus was the "Le grand bunker" in Ouistreham, a surprise find and really great displays, anyway back to the beer and then to try an find my cabin on this golliath!

[Gil Boyd]

John,
Great to hear you had a good trip and found most of the museums open. Just too much to take in on one day. It is, as I always tell people to fully understand the sacrifice, its a two week trip

[mrclark303]

Evening Gil, great buying trip (concluded at breakneck speed to give me two spare days. Beautiful countryside, I found the graveyards​ really quite moving, the German Mausoleum was a very different approach, l found the encapsulated photograph left on one by family, particularly​ poiniant ... so very young... The terrible loss of life on both sides, during the push out from the beachheads​ was both humbling and sobering.

All politicians should be made to visit such places to gauge the true cost of war in my opinion.

Back next month, so I will be heading for the Airborne Museum. I thought the calibre of the various museum's was first rate, some very rare peices, beautifully displayed.