80th Anniversary of D-Day Nothe Fort
When? 03 Jun 2024 to 31 Aug 2024
Where? Nothe Fort - Weymouth
Nothe Fort is delighted to announce that it will be presenting a new exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The exhibition will open 3rd June 2024.
The exhibition will explore and commemorate the role of Nothe Fort and Weymouth’s residents in the preparations for the D-Day operations of 1944.
Working with designer, Mark Magidson, the fort's volunteer curatorial team is presenting a story that allows fort visitors to really get a feel for the experiences of soldiers and local people alike in the build up to Operation Overlord, the codename given to the Battle of Normandy, the WWII Allied operation that launched the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe.
Local residents have generously come forward to share their memories of this pivotal point in WWII when Weymouth became a key location for the arrival and departure of Allied forces preparing to invade Nazi occupied France. Joining together with the fort's volunteer curatorial team, residents' memories are being recorded for posterity and made available to visitors to listen to and enjoy in a specially designed Weymouth at War section of the exhibition.
The exhibition is featuring a series of specially edited films full of rarely seen still and moving images that capture the energetic atmosphere of Weymouth when American forces arrived and prepared for their departure to Omaha Beach in Normandy.
Volunteers from Nothe Fort will be presenting several guided walks around the exhibition space and the surrounding area to further bring the stories to life.
The exhibition will provide a host of family friendly displays carefully curated to share the story of Weymouth’s role in D-Day.
Visitors will have the opportunity to find out about Robert Capa - reputed to be one of the greatest war photographers of all time – and the journey he undertook from Weymouth to Normandy that resulted in some of the most iconic WWII images ever captured.
Nothe Fort is delighted to be working in partnership with Weymouth Museum to share their photographic collection.
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