DOSSIER MILITARIA No. 2: Normandy 44. Events and gatherings: commemorations, museums, fairs, encampments, collecting...

This special issue is designed to accompany you in Normandy if you are attending the many events planned for this 80th anniversary. Our complete calendar is illustrated with an exclusive colour map locating all these events, so you can plan your itinerary as efficiently as possible and miss nothing!

In the section devoted to museums, we have chosen to highlight the most dynamic establishments — those that do not rest on their laurels and genuinely offer something new in 2024. Several of them have organised ambitious events; dates and times are given in the article dedicated to each one. If you cannot make it to Normandy, you will still have plenty to read thanks to expanded documentary content on the combatants: 70 pages of articles written by specialists from around the world!

Happy reading and see you on the beaches!

Contents

• • The events calendar. Fairs and auctions. Re-enactment camps. Shops.
    
    
  • The Museum Guide: Carentan-les-Marais, the D-Day Experience / the Normandy Victory Museum in Catz. Courseulles-sur-Mer, the Juno Beach Centre. Sainte-Mère-Église, the D-Day Collins Museum. Colleville-sur-Mer, the Big Red One Museum. Arromanches, the Landing Museum. Colleville-sur-Mer, the Overlord Museum. Franceville-Merville, the Merville Battery. Ver-sur-Mer, the Gold Beach Museum.
  • The "Collecting" articles:

• Corporal Wright's helmet, 7th Reconnaissance Regiment, by Jean-Luc Cayez.

• The threat of an Allied landing through German eyes, by Stéphane Brière.

• The Canadian parachute badge (2), by Ken Joyce.

• Soldier Moran's jacket, by Frédéric Schmittlin.

• An SS honour ring, trophy of a Canadian para, by David Vincent.

• Sergeant Owen's album, 3 Scots Guards, by Robert Le Chantoux.

• The 2nd Armored in the Caumont sector, by Pierre-Marie Sergent.

• Lieutenant-Commander Charles Bennion's blue jacket, RNVR, by Dominique Henrard.

• The "Tabby" project, British night-vision devices, 1939–45, by Daniel Wendel.

• SS-Kanonier Max Wechs, of the schwere SS-Artillerie Abteilung 101 "LSSAH", by Marco Pisani.

• Gerry Levers' uniform, Royal Winnipeg Rifles, by Don Levers.