AERODOC Day in Normandy (Part 2).

Before joining our next stopover, a stopover at the restaurant on the beach, where a Caravelle’s main landing gear welcomes us.

We stay in the bath...

We then joined the D-Day Wings Museum in a hangar at Caen-Carpiquet airport (occupied by the Germans between 1940 and 1944), this new museum focuses on presenting the aerial history of the Second World War.

Welcomed by Jean-Michel Grinda who tells us that there are many museums on the Normandy Landings, it is the 52nd, but the only one on aeronautics, and to immerse visitors, it is very important. This is not the apology for war, but we allow the daily life of the time to be touched on.

In this huge restored historic hangar, airplanes, a captive balloon, military vehicles, tank, scale 1 replicas, dioramas and a large number of relics found in the surrounding Normandy land and throughout the landing beaches are on display.

Observation plane.

A scale 1 replica of the Spitfire.

An "experience" included in one of the tour packages allow you to sit in the cockpit of a "warbird".

Relic of an engine found nearby.

Jean had better take it easy after this marksmanship training “experience” with this antiaircraft gun that works like it did back then... but rest assured without the ammunition.

A new “experience” allows some with the "right size" to settle into that lower turret of a working B17 of course.

And right next to a relic of the nose of a light bomber.

In one of the “shelters” a formidable collection of models representing the region of the landing.

A collection of military objects and documents.

A 1944 Ward La France tank recovery truck. But his Sherman tank was out for a ride when we visited.

On this large reproduction of a period photo, we can see the hangar at the time occupied by the Luftwaffe, and standing on the wing of his Messerschmitt 109-F General Adolf Galland.