ARROMANCHES

 London, England • September 4, 1943 On this date in 1943 the British War Office and Admiralty gave the go-ahead to build two temp­o­rary port­able deep-water arti­fi­cial har­bors, one (code­named Mul­berry “A”) to be posi­tioned off Omaha Beach at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer and the second (Mulberry “B”) off Gold Beach at Arro­manches-les-Bains. The com­po­nents of both har­bors…