THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-1946 - PREFABRICATED HARBOUR GOES TO FRANCEFor the first time in history, an invading army has taken its own harbour to the enemy-held shore. The colossal task of planning and constructing a pre-fabricated, floating harbour big enough to supply the Allied enemies in France was carried out in the period between the 1943 Quebec Conference and D Day - June 1944. Huge concrete caissons, each weighing 7000 tons, were towed across the 100 miles of Channel and set down at Arromanches on the Normandy coast, where 15 obsolete ships had been sunk to form a prel
THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-1946 - PREFABRICATED HARBOUR GOES TO FRANCEFor the first time in history, an invading army has taken its own harbour to the enemy-held shore. The colossal task of planning and constructing a pre-fabricated, floating harbour big enough to supply the Allied enemies in France was carried out in the period between the 1943 Quebec Conference and D Day - June 1944. Huge concrete caissons, each weighing 7000 tons, were towed across the 100 miles of Channel and set down at Arromanches on the Normandy coast, where 15 obsolete ships had been sunk to form a preliminary harbour arm. Floating piers and pierheads were all made in sections and towed across the sea. The operation began a few hours after the initial D Day landings and by D Day plus thirteen, in spite of a storm of winter strength, the Mulberry harbour was completed. The Allied Armies demands for supplies had been met: the Germans main defence strategy - to hold the supply ports at any cost - shows:Join-up of the pre-fabricated port in use at Arromanches
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