A painted warning forbids entry to this decaying relic of the World War II June 1944 ‘D-Day’ landings, reached on foot only at low tide on ‘Gold Beach’ at Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, Normandy, France. The holed concrete caissons left here were part of Mulberry Harbour B, a prefabricated harbour towed from England for the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France. As tides rise, the hollow concrete sections re-fill with seawater, with the risk that someone could be trapped inside. The harbour, assembled offshore, was used after D-Day to land millions of troops, vehicles and supplies.
Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, Normandy, France: seaweed hangs from this decaying relic of the World War II 1944 ‘D-Day’ Allied landings, accessible on foot only at low tide on ‘Gold Beach’ at Arromanches. People can walk from the town across the sand to reach several surviving pre-cast concrete caissons or hollow sections of Port Winston or Mulberry Harbour B, one of two prefabricated portable harbours towed across the English Channel to aid the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. However, a hand-painted sign on this example forbids entry to the holed caisson and warns of the danger of becoming trapped inside it by a rising tide. The harbour sections lying on the beach are usually submerged at high water. The 600,000-tonne harbour was 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. Mulberry Harbour A was used at Omaha Beach, immediately to the west on the Normandy coast.
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Location: Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, Normandy, France.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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