Gold Beach Normandy
An absolutely stunning picture. But what you are looking at today … is much much different from D-Day of 1944. This is GOLD BEACH at Normandy, France where allied forces landed during World War II. My colleague Phil took this picture just before Christmas – and he’s not shy to admit he got a little choked up. Understandable. Here’s something amazing too: those brown ’slabs’ you see are remains of just one of the artificial/temporary harbours built “in secret” in Britain and towed to the beaches. The codename for this harbour on Gold beach was Mullberrry B. The harbours were needed to offload men, vehicles, and supplies after D-Day.
DID YOU KNOW? There were two harbours built: Mulberry “A” and Mulberry “B”. Mulberry A, built for the Americans off Omaha beach, was destroyed by a storm halfway through construction. But Mulberry B erected for the British & Canadians survived. It was two miles wide-one mile deep, and took fourteen days to construct.
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