Exposition "Système D-[DAY]. Quand les paysans normands réutilisent le matériel militaire de la seconde guerre mondiale"

In addition to the famous June 6, 1944 D-Day military operation and the parachute drops for which Sainte-Mère-Eglise is famous, the Cotentin Farm Museum aims to explore the daily lives of civilians during the war and the Reconstruction period that followed.
After 6 years of privation, shortages and rationing during the Second World War, civilians showed great ingenuity in reusing war material, both before and after the Allied landings. The large influx of raw materials from the D-Day landings enabled them to transform and reuse this equipment on farms and in everyday life. A helmet becomes a grain measure, a gas mask case becomes a milk jug, a parachute becomes a blouse?
What do these objects tell us about a troubled and painful period for the Normans, who paid a heavy price for freedom?

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