Phoenix breakwaters Phoenix breakwaters The Phoenix breakwaters were a set of reinforced concrete caissons built as part of the artificial Mulberry harbours that were assembled as part of the follow-up to the Normandy landings during World War II. They were constructed by civil engineering contractors around the coast of Britain. They were collected at Dungeness and Selsey, and then towed by tugboats across the English Channel and sunk to form the Mulberry harbour breakwaters replacing the initial "Gooseberry" block ships. Further caisson were added in the autumn of 1944 to re-enforce the existing structure to cope with the harbour continuing in use
D-Day the Sixth of June and wounded. Wynter is killed when he steps on a mine. Parker is badly wounded and evacuated. In hospital, and due to be repatriated, he sees Valerie for the last time. She does not tell him that Wynter has been killed. Lionel Shapiro (1908–1958) was a Canadian war correspondent for "The Montreal Gazette" who landed at the Allied invasion of Sicily, Salerno and Juno Beach on D-Day with the Canadian forces. His 1955 romantic novel "The Sixth of June" was awarded the Governor General's Award for English language fiction. As opposed to a historical account such as "The Longest Day",