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    Visiting Normandy August 2014

    in Battlefields, museums, monuments and memorials.

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    Thank you for the help. I've been using http://www.warmuseums.nl and google to narrow down the museum list.

     

    At the moment I'm thinking of visiting these museums.

    Musee Omaha 6 juin 1944 - Saint Laurent sur Mer http://www.musee-memorial-omaha.com

    Airborne Museum – Sainte Mere Eglise http://www.airborne-museum.org

    Musee du Debarquement – Sainte-marie-du-Mont http://www.utah-beach.com

    Musee du Debarquement – Arromanches http://www.normandy1944.com'>http://www.normandy1944.com'>http://www.normandy1944.com

    Musee de la Bataille de Normandie – Bayeux http://www.normandiememoire.com

    Le grand Bunker Muse de Mur de l’Atlantique – Ouistreham http://www.musee-grand-bunker.com

    Memorial Pegasus – Ranville-Benouville http://www.normandy1944.com

     

    Any suggestion on other museums/ places we ought to visit? Should we leave out any of the above?

     

     

    Marty

    Visiting Normandy August 2014

    in Battlefields, museums, monuments and memorials.

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    This august I'll be taking my father to Normady as a birthday present. He was born just a few days after the invasion started and has always been intrestes in war history. I think we'll spend about 4-5 days driving around in the area, but there are so many things to see! :-)

    Of course we'll have to visit the beaches, but what are the better museums in the area?

    I've been looking thru older threads, but find it hard to narrow down to the top 3 museums.

     

    We'll be going in early august, rather than queing up with th crowd in june!

     

    Any advice anyone?

     

     

     

    Marty

    Finland next summer.

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    Next summer I've decided to have a closer look at Finlands military history. I'll rent a car a spend a few days looking around.

    From my research so far I've found these museums:

    The tank museum at Parola

    The Aviation Museum of Central Finland

    Finnish Aviation Museum at Helsinki airport

    The Artillery Museum of Finland at Hämeenlinna

    The military museum in Helsinki

    Suomenlinna Sea Fortress in Helsinki

     

    Does anyone know of anything else intresting that I have to check out?

     

     

    Marty

    Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection, Norway - revisited.

    in Battlefields, museums, monuments and memorials.

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    Marty, I think you will find the F-35 is some sort of mock-up / prototype. Early in the program they had at least one which they took to air shows etc.

     

    Thanks for the pics, really great collection of superbly restored aircraft. Like the Lockheed Lodestar!

     

    No way! This is the real thing! The royal norwegian airforce is leading the way. We're already doing 6th generation fighters. :-)

     

     

    Marty

    HGM Vienna, Austria

    in Battlefields, museums, monuments and memorials.

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    The HGM in Vienna is one of the more intresting museums I've been to. It's located in a large beautiful building with lots of space between the displays inside. It covers early times until after ww2, with a few tanks and planes from more modern periode.

    The Highlight being the car that Franz Ferdinand sat in when he was shot, which started ww1. Also among the goodies are a SU-100 tank and a Fiesler Storch. The tank collection outside is the least impressing, but only due to lack of space I would think. A fence placed close to the vehicles crammed into the small courtyard ruins the nice collection. And ruins the opportunity to take nice pictures.

     

    I highly recommend a visit to the museums that shows the rich military history of Austria.

     

    http://www.hgm.or.at/

     

     

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    Marty

    Austrian MV museum?

    in Other Chatter

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    Hi everyone! thank you for good advice.

     

    The arsenal seems to be the easiest ad most important to visit. The Flak towers is a must see! Is it possible to enter them? Who would I have to talk to? The militarmuseum Rosenberg also looks really intresting. ow far from Vienna?

    Well, they all look intresting!

     

    Again, thanks!

     

    Marty

    Austrian MV museum?

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    I've been able to locate militarymueum.at at the net, but I havn't found out where in Austria it's located! I understand it's a private collection owned by a Robert Gill. Anyway I'm spending a few days in Austria and thought I'd try to stop by there. Anyone?

     

    Marty

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