Castletown D-Day Centre Portland UK

Castletown D-Day Centre is a recreation of the Portland Dockyard in 1944. Thousands of US troops of the 5th US Corps and US 1st Infantry began their brave and treacherous journey to Normandy.

I stopped by after visiting Weymouth on my way back to the cruise ship. The local shuttle bus stops at the nearby Portland Castle.

The real equipment and full size figures give a sense of the action in the Spring of 1944.

Before embarking at Portland, many Americans were encamped  about 20 miles away at Wardon Hill, Dorset where my father and others had built camps.

Related Links

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

HMS Belfast, a D-Day ship on the Thames in London

Imperial War Museum- Manchester

Imperial War Museum- London

Index to World War II sites

Learn more at ddaycentre.com

Visit notes

There is an entrance fee

Storyboards are on the walls.

You can get in or on a lot of the equipment.

There's a small snack bar.

In 2022, toilets were in a nearby building-request the key.

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Portland Castle

Weymouth Town and Beaches

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