The D-Day Museum has large archive of material relating to many aspects of D-Day. This includes original documents, veterans’ memoirs, and sound recordings of the reminiscences of veterans and other witnesses to D-Day and Operation Overlord.

Please click on the links below to read more:
Preparing for D-Day
Crossing the Channel
The Air Forces and Airborne Troops
Naval Memories

The Beaches
Utah Beach
Omaha Beach
Gold Beach
Juno Beach
Sword Beach
Inland from the Beaches

British civilians witness D-Day

Add your memories
Would you like to send your memories of D-Day to the D-Day Museum?
Please contact Andrew Whitmarsh, Military History Officer, at andrew.whitmarsh@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or complete our online form Add your own memories>

We have tried to contact the authors of all the material used here. If you are the author of material used here, or a relative, and we have not been able to contact you about this, please contact Andrew Whitmarsh, Military History Officer, Portsmouth Museums & Records Service. Email: andrew.whitmarsh@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
City Museum and Records Office, Museum Road, Portsmouth PO1 2LJ, UK.
Tel: 023 9282 7261. Fax: 023 9287 5276

All accounts used have been edited for purposes of brevity and clarity.

Photographs courtesy of the D-Day Museum, the Imperial War Museum, US Navy/US Coast Guard, and The News, Portsmouth. Images may not be copied without permission.