Wednesday, September 17

Sept 5 - Les Villes d' Arromanches and Port Mulberry




Mulberry Harbor at Arromanches.  You can still remnants of the old outer harbor caissons ( B) used as breakwater.   (C) is part of the floating docks or roadways used to unload cargo.  (A) is one of the many German gun emplacements that had to captured before the docks could be built.  A similar harbor was built at Omaha Beach, but was mostly destroyed in a storm, three weeks after D-Day
A few weeks after D-Day
 



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