On this shore, history was made

As the sun sets on this beach in Normandy, what appear to be working barges and boats offshore are actually the remnants of Mulberry Harbours, temporary portable harbours constructed by British military engineers during World War Two. Their story begins 77 years ago today, on D-Day, when the first of the Allied troops touched down on the Nazi-occupied beaches at Normandy. After the Allies successfully held the beachheads, the Mulberries were towed into place so the artificial harbours could provide the port facilities necessary to offload the thousands of men and vehicles, and tonnes of supplies necessary to sustain the effort to drive the Germans out of France.
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