French-developed technology making its U.S. debut this month will allow new views of the D-Day invasion that helped end World War II.
In this Friday, April 26, 2019 photo, Deane Sager, of Louisville, right, and his wife Cathy use a Histopad tablet to view scenes from operations on the western front of World War II at the The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, in Dayton, Ohio. French-developed technology making its U.S. debut this month will allow new views of the D-Day invasion 75 years ago that began the liberation of France and helped end World War II. The National Museum of the U.S.
From the viewpoints of a paratrooper snagged on a church steeple or a soldier firing a bazooka at a German tank, visitors at Ohio’s National Museum of the U.S. Air Force can soon be transported to Normandy, where the June 6, 1944, attack happened. The new way of learning about D-Day is set to launch Monday as part of the museum’s D-Day commemorations, which will also include paratroopers dropping from aCodenamed Operation Overlord, D-Day saw some 156,000 U.S., British and Canadian forces landing on five beaches along a 50 mile stretch of France’s coast, supported by thousands of ships, landing vessels, planes and gliders, and with inland help from French resistance fighters.
The tablets are among new technology increasingly in use at museums and historic sites that offer virtual and augmented reality to help learning and understanding, such as in theThe D-Day exhibit was a natural place to start the U.S. rollout, also the first site outside of France, said company spokesman Bruno de Sa Moreira.
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