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Castletown D-Day Museum的点评
点评：We loved this museum. As others have said, it is very much a hands-on place.
It is worth watching the video from the founder Derek Luckhurst who explains the aims of the museum and what he hopes visitors experience. The aims include not just remembering the US troops who passed through Castletown, but also how it must have felt for the people who lived there, what it must have been like to have hundreds of Americans in town for weeks, to have made friends with them and then suddenly one morning, for them all to leave. And of course, there would be no way of the people knowing what happened to them.
The staff will point out the slipway just a few metres down the road and from which the infantrymen and all their equipment left Castletown that day. It hasn't changed much.
Re the items on display, we thought it was great to not only sit in a Bofors AA gun but to be able to rotate it using the control. Similarly being able to step into vehicles, sit in the driving seats, handle weapons etc was terrific.
Although some items have 'do not touch' signs (with reminders that the items are fragile and over 80 years old) visitors are encouraged to handle most objects. The weapons were surprisingly heavy, and there are helpful notices asking visitors to consider how it would be for a US infantryman landing on a Normandy beach, wading through the sea while under intense fire and trying to carry heavy weapons and ammunition etc.
One outcome of being able to handle these items is that it added to our appreciation of movies such as 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Pressure' and TV shows such as 'Band of Brothers.' You literally get a better feel for what the average G.I experienced.
The staff were great, very helpful, friendly and appreciative that people are interested. The man supporting me into the Sherman had me put on a hard hat. I wondered if it was really necessary but was glad of it upon climbing inside and banging my head every 2 seconds. The hard hat is totally necessary!
His and his colleague's enthusiasm, humour and knowledge added to the experience.
Finally, upon entry, a staff member welcomed us and asked us to pick a name each out of an ammunition tin. This simple act was what I shall remember most of all. In the lottery of who would live or die in that first wave, we were invited to consider it personally: would we have survived? At the end, the staff member took us to the boards outside the museum listing all the soldiers US 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions and their fate. My wife's named man survived the war. Mine was killed on the beach. RIP Private Edgar H Kimball, 18 January 1924 - 06 June 1944.
It is worth watching the video from the founder Derek Luckhurst who explains the aims of the museum and what he hopes visitors experience. The aims include not just remembering the US troops who passed through Castletown, but also how it must have felt for the people who lived there, what it must have been like to have hundreds of Americans in town for weeks, to have made friends with them and then suddenly one morning, for them all to leave. And of course, there would be no way of the people knowing what happened to them.
The staff will point out the slipway just a few metres down the road and from which the infantrymen and all their equipment left Castletown that day. It hasn't changed much.
Re the items on display, we thought it was great to not only sit in a Bofors AA gun but to be able to rotate it using the control. Similarly being able to step into vehicles, sit in the driving seats, handle weapons etc was terrific.
Although some items have 'do not touch' signs (with reminders that the items are fragile and over 80 years old) visitors are encouraged to handle most objects. The weapons were surprisingly heavy, and there are helpful notices asking visitors to consider how it would be for a US infantryman landing on a Normandy beach, wading through the sea while under intense fire and trying to carry heavy weapons and ammunition etc.
One outcome of being able to handle these items is that it added to our appreciation of movies such as 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Pressure' and TV shows such as 'Band of Brothers.' You literally get a better feel for what the average G.I experienced.
The staff were great, very helpful, friendly and appreciative that people are interested. The man supporting me into the Sherman had me put on a hard hat. I wondered if it was really necessary but was glad of it upon climbing inside and banging my head every 2 seconds. The hard hat is totally necessary!
His and his colleague's enthusiasm, humour and knowledge added to the experience.
Finally, upon entry, a staff member welcomed us and asked us to pick a name each out of an ammunition tin. This simple act was what I shall remember most of all. In the lottery of who would live or die in that first wave, we were invited to consider it personally: would we have survived? At the end, the staff member took us to the boards outside the museum listing all the soldiers US 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions and their fate. My wife's named man survived the war. Mine was killed on the beach. RIP Private Edgar H Kimball, 18 January 1924 - 06 June 1944.
翻译：我们非常喜欢这座博物馆。正如其他人所说，这里是个非常适合动手体验的地方。
值得一看的是创始人德里克·勒克赫斯特制作的视频，他在视频中阐述了博物馆的宗旨以及他希望参观者能获得怎样的体验。这些宗旨不仅包括铭记那些曾途经卡斯尔敦的美国士兵，还包括让人们体会当地居民当时的感受——想象一下，成百上千的美国人连续数周驻扎在镇上，那种情形会是怎样的吧。我们和他们成了朋友，可就在某个清晨，他们全都离开了。当然，人们根本无从知晓他们遭遇了什么。
工作人员会指给游客看路边仅几米远处的滑道——那天，步兵们和他们的所有装备就是从那里离开卡斯尔敦的。那个地方几乎没什么变化。
至于展出的物品，我们觉得不仅能坐在博福斯高射炮里，还能通过控制装置让它转动，这真是太棒了。同样，能够步入车辆内部、坐在驾驶座上、甚至触摸武器等体验也棒极了。
虽然有些物品上贴有“请勿触摸”的标签（并提醒这些物品十分易碎且已有80多年历史），但参观者仍被鼓励去触碰大多数物品。那些武器出乎意料地沉重，现场还设有提示牌，引导参观者想象一名美军步兵在诺曼底海滩登陆时的感受。在密集的炮火中涉水前进，同时还要携带沉重的武器和弹药等等。
能够熟练处理这些装备的另一个好处是，它让我们更能体会像《拯救大兵瑞恩》《压力》这类电影，以及《兄弟连》这类电视剧所描绘的情景。你真的能更真切地感受到普通士兵的亲身经历。
工作人员非常棒，既热心又友好，对于大家表现出的兴趣也心怀感激。那个帮我爬进谢尔曼坦克的男士让我戴上安全帽。我起初还怀疑是否有这个必要，但进去之后才发现确实必不可少——因为我每隔两秒就会撞到头。这顶安全帽绝对不可或缺！
他和他同事的热情、幽默以及丰富的知识也让整个体验更加愉快。
最后，我们进入坦克后，一名工作人员热情地迎接我们，还让我们从一个弹药盒里各挑一个名字。这个简单的环节正是我最难以忘怀的部分。在第一波攻击中，谁能生还、谁会丧命，这仿佛是一场命运的抽签。我们被要求从个人角度去思考：自己能否活下来呢？最后，工作人员带我们去看博物馆外的展示板，上面列出了美国第1步兵师和第29步兵师所有士兵的姓名及其命运。我妻子所查到的那人活过了战争；而我查到的那个人则牺牲在了海滩上。愿埃德加·H·金博尔列兵安息吧，1924年1月18日—1944年6月6日。
值得一看的是创始人德里克·勒克赫斯特制作的视频，他在视频中阐述了博物馆的宗旨以及他希望参观者能获得怎样的体验。这些宗旨不仅包括铭记那些曾途经卡斯尔敦的美国士兵，还包括让人们体会当地居民当时的感受——想象一下，成百上千的美国人连续数周驻扎在镇上，那种情形会是怎样的吧。我们和他们成了朋友，可就在某个清晨，他们全都离开了。当然，人们根本无从知晓他们遭遇了什么。
工作人员会指给游客看路边仅几米远处的滑道——那天，步兵们和他们的所有装备就是从那里离开卡斯尔敦的。那个地方几乎没什么变化。
至于展出的物品，我们觉得不仅能坐在博福斯高射炮里，还能通过控制装置让它转动，这真是太棒了。同样，能够步入车辆内部、坐在驾驶座上、甚至触摸武器等体验也棒极了。
虽然有些物品上贴有“请勿触摸”的标签（并提醒这些物品十分易碎且已有80多年历史），但参观者仍被鼓励去触碰大多数物品。那些武器出乎意料地沉重，现场还设有提示牌，引导参观者想象一名美军步兵在诺曼底海滩登陆时的感受。在密集的炮火中涉水前进，同时还要携带沉重的武器和弹药等等。
能够熟练处理这些装备的另一个好处是，它让我们更能体会像《拯救大兵瑞恩》《压力》这类电影，以及《兄弟连》这类电视剧所描绘的情景。你真的能更真切地感受到普通士兵的亲身经历。
工作人员非常棒，既热心又友好，对于大家表现出的兴趣也心怀感激。那个帮我爬进谢尔曼坦克的男士让我戴上安全帽。我起初还怀疑是否有这个必要，但进去之后才发现确实必不可少——因为我每隔两秒就会撞到头。这顶安全帽绝对不可或缺！
他和他同事的热情、幽默以及丰富的知识也让整个体验更加愉快。
最后，我们进入坦克后，一名工作人员热情地迎接我们，还让我们从一个弹药盒里各挑一个名字。这个简单的环节正是我最难以忘怀的部分。在第一波攻击中，谁能生还、谁会丧命，这仿佛是一场命运的抽签。我们被要求从个人角度去思考：自己能否活下来呢？最后，工作人员带我们去看博物馆外的展示板，上面列出了美国第1步兵师和第29步兵师所有士兵的姓名及其命运。我妻子所查到的那人活过了战争；而我查到的那个人则牺牲在了海滩上。愿埃德加·H·金博尔列兵安息吧，1924年1月18日—1944年6月6日。
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