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D-day 75 in Portsmouth — Definitive Guide All You Need to Know. Events to mark the occasion are scheduled throughout June 2019 at various locations around the city including Southsea Common, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, and the newly renovated D-Day museum ‘The D-Day Story’.
Read MoreSouthsea will become a hub of activity this June when the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings – or D-Day – is commemorated.
Read MoreThe D-Day Story, the only museum in the UK dedicated to the Allied Invasion in June 1944, is opening in time for Easter. It follows a £5million transformation undertaken ahead of the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019.
Read MoreSix Portsmouth museums have been awarded national accreditation status by Arts Council England.
Read MoreBack in June of 2014, Portsmouth let out a collective cheer as the D-Day Museum down on Southsea Seafront announced that they’d secured Heritage Lottery funding for the amount of £4.1million — in the very year that Portsmouth commemorated the 70th anniversary of the historic wartime event with proceedings and a Royal Visit on Southsea Common.
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