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…
Cherbourg, France • June 26, 1944 On June 19–22, 1944, a violent gale featuring 332‑knot/59‑km/h winds hit the 2 huge Mulberry artificial harbors that the Allies had built in England, towed across the English Channel under danger of wind, weather, and enemy air attack, and planted off the Normandy invasion beaches, one off Omaha, the other…
Cherbourg, France · June 26, 1944 On June 19–21, 1944, a violent gale hit the two huge Mulberry artificial harbors that the Allies had built in England, towed across the English Channel under danger of wind, weather, and enemy air attack, and planted off the Normandy beaches on D‑Day-plus eight (June 14). The prefabricated harbors with…
Cherbourg, France · June 26, 1944 On June 19–21, 1944, a violent gale hit the two huge Mulberry artificial harbors that the Allies had built in England, towed across the English Channel under danger of wind, weather, and enemy air attack, and planted off the Normandy invasion beaches on D‑Day-plus eight (June 14). The prefabricated harbors…