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The Mulberry at Arromanches - Related Files

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	Mulberry Harbour B A reconnaissance picture of the Mulberry Harbour made during WWII. The Mulberry harbours were two prefabricated or artificial military harbours, which were carried across the English Channel from Britain with the invading army and assembled off the coast of Normandy as part of the D-Day invasion of France. The remains of Mulberry 'B' can still be seen off the Normandy coast at Ar...		08/08/2005	981
	Mulberry Harbour B, Arromanches A Mulberry Harbour was a type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on a beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy.		09/28/2005	368
	D-Day Mullberry Harbour A Mulberry Harbour was a type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on a beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy. By June 9, just 3 days after D-Day, two harbours codenamed Mulberry 'A' and 'B' were constructed at Omaha Beach and Arromanches, respectively. However, a large storm on June 19 destroyed the American harbour at Omaha, leaving only the Br...		08/05/2005	895
	Mullberry B at Arromanches - September 1944 Mulberry harbour at Arromanches, Normandy, in September 1944. These prefabricated floating harbours, constructed three days after the initial landings, were used to offload men and equipment at Gold and Omaha beaches. The harbour at Omaha beach was destroyed within 10 days, but the Arromanches harbour at Gold beach provided an essential landing base for Allies forces for 8 months, landing milli...		10/23/2008	334
	Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches, Gold Beach Artificial harbour to offload cargo and vehicles after D-Day in Normandy.		07/06/2008	343
	Sherman tank on a pillbox This is a well-preserved M4A3 Sherman tank used by the Free French 2nd Armoured Division on top of the pillbox. It's located at the east side of Arromanches overlooking the Mulberry harbour and Gold beach.		05/13/2006	575
	WW2 Dday artficial port Mulberry A 2nd view Another view of Mulberries A at Omaha beach A multibeam echo sounder underwater view of the sunken Omaha WW2 artificial harbour. Usually those datas are in 3D You can even see a big ship tanked in the harbour. The name of this ship is the SS Exford Datas acquired during Neptune 2K expedition. Copyright Steeve Schmidt, Naval Historical center More...		01/28/2006	508
	Arromanches radar station site In addition to the radar stations on the Normandy coast were a series of observation posts set around ten kilometres apart, but closer if headlands were concerned, to enable visual signalling to adjacent posts. For the Normandy coast these were regionally controlled by the Flugmelde Zentrale (Plotting Centre) situated some three miles inland near Caen. Altogether the Caen centre controlled some...		05/11/2006	428
	Gold Beach I (Overlay) An aerial reconnaissance picture of Gold Beach during D-Day. Gold Beach was the Allied codename for the centre invasion beach during the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944. It lay between Omaha Beach and Juno Beach, was 8km wide and divided into four sectors. From West to East they were How, Item, Jig, and King. The grim task of invading Gold Be...		08/10/2005	1,088