A barge and a turret join the D-Day Omaha museum

Opened the previous year, Michel Brissard's D-Day Omaha Museum received two imposing rooms in its parking lot on a Friday: an American landing barge and a German observation turret.

The barge, designated LCPV in the article, returned to Normandy fifty-six years after the Landing. A collector friend had previously taken her to Royan. Michel Brissard presented it as a model who landed in Omaha on June 6, 1944. He wanted to restore it to allow visitors to board the following year and discover the design, with its engine still in place.

The turret weighed fifty tons. Found in a blockhouse near Cherbourg, she had been rescued from scrap metal by a collector. Marcel Jossi, who accompanied her to the museum, showed the impacts of Sherman tank shells remaining in thirty centimeters of steel, near an observation hatch. The central periscope had been stolen during the dismantling of the blockhouse.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The acronym LCPV and the statement on the model landed in Omaha are those in the article; they have not been replaced by another type of barge without further evidence.

Archive image: https://vierville.cordelle.eu/PhDoc10/2000Mai29a-Musee.jpg