Dassault Systèmes Technology Recreates D-Day Invasion

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Earlier this month, The Boston Globe published an article showcasing Dassault Systèmes’ partnership with a Boston public television station to recreate the epic D-Day invasion – a turning point in World World II.

Higgins boats delivered troops and vehicles to the beaches of Normandy. Image courtesy of Boston Globe.Here is an excerpt from the article:

Seventy years after American, British, and Canadian troops stormed onto the beaches of Normandy, a new generation of scientists are digitally recreating the machines that got them there.

Dassault Systèmes, a French manufacturer of simulation software with US headquarters in Waltham, teamed up with the Boston public television station WGBH on “D-day’s Sunken Secrets,” an episode of the science documentary series “Nova.”

Among the show’s highlights: three-dimensional simulations of the landing craft that brought troops ashore, the gliders that dropped American commandos deep inside Nazi-occupied France, and a pair of vast portable harbors used to unload thousands of tons of supplies onto the beaches.

“I thought it was astonishing. It really was like stepping back in time,” said marine engineer Tim Beckett, son of the designer of the so-called Mulberry Harbor, Allan Beckett, after surveying a Dassault simulation of his father’s handiwork.

Dassault’s Passion for Innovation Institute uses the company’s software to better understand the engineering triumphs of earlier eras…Now Dassault has used old blueprints and photographs, as well as sonar scans of hundreds of sunken ships and other structures off the Normandy coast, to unveil the remarkable military technologies developed by Beckett’s father and other innovative thinkers. Read More.

“NOVA: D-Day’s Sunken Secrets” premieres Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 9PM EDT on PBS.

To learn more about technologies from Dassault Systèmes, please visit www.3ds.com

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