D-Day Talks & Tours

‘On this Day’ Operation Neptune Part One

A short tour exploring 4 Commonwealth and US Tanks of D-Day housed in the Museum’s Tank Story Hall, including the famous “DD” swimming Sherman and the Churchill Crocodile.

‘On this Day’ Operation Neptune Part Two

A short tour exploring the Tanks of D-Day in the Museum’s World War 2 War Stories Hall.  Including the Tetrarch – a light tank that went to France in a glider – the Churchill AVRE with its ‘Flying Dustbin’ demolition bombs and the only German ‘tank’ to appear on D-Day, the Sturmgeschutz.

“Battle Chats: The Swimming Tanks of D-Day”

By Tuesday 6^th June 1944, a vast armada had gathered off the coast of Normandy, France. Through the swirling smoke and dust from a heavy air and naval bombardment, wave after wave of landing craft carrying infantry from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, were now surging towards a 50 mile stretch of beach.

This short talk follows these swimming tanks on all five invasion beaches, as well as focusing on how the weather would affect them.