MULBERRY ARTIFICIAL HARBORS GET GO-AHEAD
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…