Skip to comments.Mulberry harbour built off Normandy after D-Day uncovered on the seabed 69 years later
Posted on 03/23/2013 2:21:03 PM PDT by the scotsman
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Skip to comments.Mulberry harbour built off Normandy after D-Day uncovered on the seabed 69 years later
Posted on 03/23/2013 2:21:03 PM PDT by the scotsman
'These ghostly images reveal the forgotten harbour built off the coast of Normandy that for six months after D-Day became the world's busiest docks.
British scientists have found the remnants of Mulberry B on the Channel seabed, which allowed the Allies to land troops, vehicles and equipment on French soil without having to capture a port first.
The makeshift harbour, nicknamed Port Winston because it was the brainchild of Churchill, was the size of Dover and is considered to be one of the greatest military achievements of all time.
Its development was even described by Albert Speer - Hitler's architect and armaments minister - as 'genius'.
It allowed 220,000 men, 50,000 vehicles and 600,000 tones of supplies to be landed in France and undoubtedly helped win the war.
Experts from the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO), which is part of the Ministry of Defence, have found that its structure still remains remarkably intact just months before the 69th anniversary of its construction.
They fired a'multi-beam echo sounder' at the sea bed off Arromanches Sur Mer and the 3D images it produced show that large sunken 'beetles', which supported floating roadways, can be found at a depth of five metres.
There are also large chunks of breakwater structures. which protected it from storms.
'It was amazing to discover how much remained despite being pounded by the sea for all those years,' said Chris Howlett, who was leading the UKHO research.'
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One of my all time favorites, as well.
Thanks, and it was my pleasure!
I guess we will find out those things in our next major war, after we learn Chinese.
I know what you mean. Women in the front lines will be a disaster. However, don't sell your sisters short. Look at all they did on the home front in WW2. Remember Rosie the Riveter.
Rosie the Riveter was not the great success story that it was portrayed as for propaganda reasons, and common sense alone would indicate that the reality was probably a little less than what we pretended it to be, after all, do we really think that little of our skilled factory men of the time, that women could just walk in off the street and poof! be equal to, or even superior to, the actual skilled factory workers, with their superior skill and strength, and aptitude and years in the field?
No women in the first wave, period, that’s the muscle part of the deal. Second wave, sure, the gals can shoot as good as us guys, seen them pick the lid off a jug of antifreeze at 100 yards with a.22 Ruger rifle. Yay gun gals!
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Thanks the scotsman.
And they still have watchdogs stealing potentially embarassing McCarthy documents right out of the national archives.
I grew up with a section of Mulberry Harbour parked just down the road from where we lived in Portsmouth. For some reason it never made it across the Channel, and was left high and dry in Langstone Harbour about 50 yards offshore. Made a great fishing platform.
Nice to know that at least one person shares my opinion of FDR. sd
The British public saw the Tories as the party who failed to keep us out of a world war. It was more that than any dislike for Churchill.
Also Labour’s 1945 manifesto promised a ‘new Jerusalem’, with a health service, new housing, increased wages, all of which seemed wonderful to people whose lives and houses had been literally shattered by six years of war.
I can fully understand why people thought they would be better to lead Britain postwar.
The story is the Americans built it much quicker, BUT because they had only secured every sixth bolt. Whilst the British secured everything.
McCarthy was a bull in a china shop, and whilst there WERE as now know many communists in high places, McCarthy’s campaign ended up being the best thing the Communists could have hoped for, as his campaign was so blundering that people accused became figures of sympathy and considered innocent just by virtue of being accused.
I doubt he was getting Venona intel.
There were communists in high places, but frankly McCarthy was a fool, and the recent move to make him a sage and hero is ridiculous. His stupidity and blundering HARMED the anticommunist cause, and HELPED communist infiltration of America.
The real American heroes are the men and women of the FBI and other agencies who hun