At low tide at Arromanches, Calvados, Normandy, France, people can walk to the water’s edge on the World War II ‘Gold Beach’ to reach - but not enter - pre-cast concrete sections of Port Winston or Mulberry Harbour B. This was the 600,000-tonne prefabricated portable harbour towed across the English Channel, assembled offshore and then used for 10 months after the Operation Overlord ‘D-Day’ invasion of 6 June 1944, to land million British and Canadian troops, half a million vehicles and four million tonnes of supplies.
Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados. Normandy, France: at low tide, people can walk across the sand of the World War II ‘Gold Beach’ to reach - but not enter - pre-cast concrete sections of Port Winston or Mulberry Harbour B. This was the 600,000-tonne prefabricated portable harbour towed across the English Channel, assembled offshore and then used for 10 months after the Operation Overlord ‘D-Day’ invasion of 6 June 1944, to land million British and Canadian troops, half a million vehicles and four million tonnes of supplies.
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Location: Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, Normandy, France.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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