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Since August 2020, the ticket to the D-Day Story has included access to landing craft tank LCT 7074. The landing craft is prominently displayed outside the museum. LCT 7074 is the last remaining, restored British-built D-Day landing craft of its kind. On LCT 7074 visitors can explore the tank deck, the upper deck, and the bridge deck.
The LCT was raised and floated into the hold of the MV Condock, which transported the LCT to the BAE Systems Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth to undergo restoration. [7] Restoration of LCT 7074 was completed in 2020, and she was moved in August to a permanent display at Portsmouth's The D-Day Story museum. [8]
Portsmouth played a key role in the planning and preparation of the D-Day landings, which is reflected 80 years later by the country’s major commemoration being held in the Hampshire city.
On 3 April 2014, The Babcock Galleries opened at the NMRN's Portsmouth Museum. The £4.5M project created 'HMS' – the Hear My Story exhibition, which tells the story of the 20th and 21st Century Royal Navy and its people, and a special exhibition space. [6] In October 2014, the Museum received funding to restore D-Day Landing Craft (Tank) LCT ...
The King, Queen and Prince of Wales along with the Prime Minister have led commemorations for the bravery of the D-Day soldiers at the national event for the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
Two dozen D-Day veterans were the star passengers of a flotilla which set sail from Portsmouth, England, on Tuesday, bound for the beaches of Normandy where 80 years ago this week they fought to ...
Documents on World War II: D-Day, The Invasion of Normandy at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home; Lt. General Omar Bradley's June 6, 1944 D-Day Maps; The short film Big Picture: D-Day Convoy to Normandy is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
Portsmouth and the Naval Base itself were the headquarters and main departure point for the military and naval units destined for Sword Beach on the Normandy coast as a part of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944.