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

Beyond the famous June 6, 1944, the military operation of the Landing and the parachute drops which made the reputation of Sainte-Mère-Eglise, the Cotentin farm museum wishes to question the daily life of civilians in this war and the period of Reconstruction which followed.
After 6 years of deprivation, shortages and rationing during the Second World War, civilians showed great ingenuity in reusing war materials, both before and after the Allied landings. The significant contribution of raw materials from the Landing allowed them to transform and reuse this material on farms or in daily life. Thus 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, witnesses of a troubled and painful period for the Normans, who paid a heavy price for Freedom?

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