In July 2007, Jacques Lemonchois has left us.

Jacques was very famous in Omaha area. Jacques had a great love for the sea and one of the tasks of Jacques' job was to take from the sea the wrecks of all objects sunk on D-Day (from tanks to helmets). Jacques very soon understand that they were piece of history and decided to preserve a lot of them from the scrap: The Museum of D-Day Sea Wrecks was born.

Jacques gave all his life to this project. He didn't want to repair the objects because as he said: "All the force of these objects was in their state". He only tried to retrace their history.

Many Veterans or families of killed soldiers came to the Museum and Jacques always welcomed them free. The Museum helped them to do their mourning.

Jacques' wife and daughter have have decided to maintain the Museum where Jacques said that he had again 100 years of work to do!

Thanks again Jacques for all the pieces of History that you have preserved.

Museum of D-Day Sea Wrecks/Musée des épaves sous-marines du Débarquement, opened every days from 1st June to 30 September (10h to 12h and 14h to 18h), route de Bayeux - Commes, 14520 Port-En-Bessin-Huppain.