A selection of original film props from the movie Pressure on display at The D-Day Story museum, including items related to the Fortitude deception plan and identification cards.
The D-Day Story in Southsea has a selection of original props from the film Pressure on display, and they'll be there until December 2026, so there's plenty of time to catch them. It's a Studio Canal and Working Title production, and the display brings a few of the movie's physical pieces into the museum for a good long run.
The film itself follows Group Captain James Stagg, a meteorologist whose forecast helped decide when the Allies would launch the invasion of Normandy, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower through the tense 72 hours before D-Day. Andrew Scott plays Stagg and Brendan Fraser portrays Eisenhower, and the story asks what would have happened had the weather prediction been wrong. It's a look at the high-stakes weather forecasting that sat behind one of the biggest operations of the Second World War.
Among the props on show is a Fortitude deception plan, part of the wider Allied effort to mislead the Axis about the invasion's timing and location, and the identification cards of Krick and Group Captain James Stagg. Seeing the actual items used on screen gives a bit of a tactile connection to the story the film tells, and they sit within The D-Day Story, which is billed as the UK's only museum dedicated to D-Day.
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It's included in normal museum admission, so you don't need a separate ticket to see it. The display runs until December 2026, so if you're planning a visit to Southsea, you've got plenty of room to fit it in.
