CHERBOURG’S CAPTURE TO REPLACE LOST MULBERRY
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…