Musee+D_Day+Omaha

Musee D-Day Omaha (Omaha Beach Memorial Museum) is a museum about D-Day. It commemorates the people that fought on one the bloodiest fights in American history - the Battle of Omaha Beach. It was built on June 5, 1948, when President Truman dedicated the site to the battle.

Michel Brissard was born at the end of the Second World War in 1945. A military history fanatic, he conducted more than 50 years of research and compiled a remarkable collection of objects, material and souvenirs bearing witness to World War II, with a particular focus on the D-Day landing. Thanks to him, many items were salvaged from oversight and destruction. He always had a desire to create a museum and in 1999 Michel Brissard was made museum administrator and he moved his collection into what is today the D Day Museum. Since opening, his collections have been presented to the public with the goal of introducing visitors to the historical aspects of this conflict. The museum has both indoor and outdoor collections of war artifacts including, turrets, floating bridges and an Enigma machine, which was developed by the Germans and used for military communications. Throughout the years, new objects have enriched the museum, especially in 2004 when the A. Mulberry artificial bridge was acquired and restored.

Why we need to know this is show how the life was for the Americans were during the fight for Europe's freedom from the Nazis. This museum was built on the beaches and you can see the miles long beach from outside it. It will be fascinating to see how difficult it was to come ashore and fight the Nazis.