OPERATION OVERLORD: 75 years since the Normandy landings. From June 13 to August 18
From 13/06/2019 to 18/08/2019. Every week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
In 2016 TIENDA DEL SOLDADO had the opportunity to collaborate with the ARMY MUSEUM in the exhibition "14 YEARS OF PRESENCE OF THE ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN", through a model of PLAYMOBIL dolls aimed at younger visitors, which showed the life of our soldiers in those lands.
The success of that collaboration has encouraged us to this new exhibition in which we want to remember the importance of a June 6, 1944, 75 years ago now, of what was the largest landing in history.
Throughout the twentieth century there had been another series of landings, one like the GALIPOLI IN 1915, during the First World War. It was a real disaster, with more than 270,000 casualties among English, French, Australian and New Zealand troops, against the Turkish army of the Ottoman Empire.
Ten years later, on SEPTEMBER 8, 1925, THE LANDING IN THE BAY OF AL HOCEIMA, in the north of the Protectorate of Morocco, took place with total success.
GENERAL PRIMO DE RIVERA was the author of this success for the Spanish Army, by carrying out a meticulous planning, a single command that would coordinate all the forces and having both naval and air support in the operation.
It is said that GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER, appointed as SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES IN EUROPE, studied the work done by PRIMO DE RIVERA IN AL HOCEIMA when planning OPERATION OVERLORD (the enclave name given to the NORMANDY landings).
Known as D-Day, it was carried out on the coasts of NORMANDY (FRANCE) during World War II by the Allied Forces. The objective: "TO OBTAIN ON THE CONTINENT THE NECESSARY SPACE TO BE ABLE TO CARRY OUT OFFENSIVE ACTIONS AGAINST THE GERMAN ARMY THAT OCCUPIED FRANCE".
The names of the landing beaches, UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO or SWORD, the port of ARROMANCHES and PUNTA DE HOC, are already part of history.
This exhibition aims to recreate small stories of that D-DAY, through dioramas made with toys, such as the MADELMAN figures, which were born in Spain in 1968, and were part of our children's games. And closer to our days are the CLICK figures from PLAYMOBIL.
All these figures have been modified and characterized as truthfully as possible, maintaining the very essence of the doll.
As far as toys are concerned, the exhibition is completed by a series of vehicles and planes made by the block system, which was created by LEGO, and which today manufacturers such as SLUBAN or COBI, have specialized in marketing under the theme of WORLD WAR II.
Drawings with the protagonists of those dates and infographics with some of the main actions, seek to help the visitor to a better knowledge of what D-DAY was. The exhibition features an original Jeep Willys from 1943, as well as period uniforms donated by reenactors whose work to keep History alive can be seen in the video and photographs on display.
Along with this diptych we give a very detailed plan of the air and land landing operations carried out on JUNE 6, 1944 - D-DAY IN NORMANDY.
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Folleto Normandía - Interior
Folleto Normandía - Interior