Normandy 1944 was a most crucial battle for both Allies and Axis, victory or defeat could chance the whole course of the war.
The music should reflect that and so I have chosen "We're going to hang out the washings on the Siegfried Line..." as the Allied Victory song, for this was a goal of the Invasion; to bring the Allied Armies to Europe, to liberate France and to bring war to Germany itself, on and over its borders. As most, if not all, Allied Armies were involved in the Normandy Invasion, I took "The Siegfried Line" as an appropriate piece of music, not directly connected to one country, but optimistic in the result of the Invasion.

For the XVictory, I took the German marching song "Lied der Sturmartillerie" ("Song of the assaultguns"), as it is a typical German marching song full of confidence in their superior armoured vehicules (hear them sing "panzer voran, voran!" ("armour in front, in front!").
Would they have won the Battle for the Beaches, their 'sturmgeschütze"would have played an important part.

More difficult was the choise of a song for a draw. This song should reflect that a draw was more disadvantageous to the Allies than to the Axis, but no real somber Allied song could be found. I found this song "And the band played Waltzing Matilda" very appropriate, as it deals with the costly stalemate of the Allied amphibious landing at Gallipoli in WWI and is very atmospheric.


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Installation

Extract the three files in your C:\program files\HPS Simulations\normandy '41\media map,
they will replace the original files there.

If you want to keep those original files, please rename them first.

Bas Kreuger
