Seaweed and barnacles cling to relics of the World War II 1944 ‘D-Day’ Allied landings, accessible on foot only at low tide on ‘Gold Beach’ at Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, Normandy, France. Some pre-cast concrete caissons or hollow sections of Port Winston or Mulberry Harbour B lie on the beach, while further remnants survive further out to sea. The vast structure was one of two prefabricated portable harbours towed across the English Channel to aid the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. It was used after D-Day to land millions of troops, vehicles and supplies.
Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, Normandy, France: seaweed and barnacles cling to decaying relics 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 - but not enter - 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. Some remnants of the structure also remain further out to sea 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
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