Day 047/18. The Lepe Dolphins, Hampshire, UK

A really good sunny day for a coast walk today.
During the build up to the D Day Normandy landings on 6 June 1944,  troops and supplies were marshalled along much of the Hampshire coast. Many hundreds of troops with their equipment, vehicles and ammunition were hidden along the narrow roads and in numerous closed camps hidden in the wooded areas across the New Forest.
Today at Lepe beach you can see remnants of that.
About half a mile east of the car parks you will come across the extensive concrete and brick structures used for three different tasks: construction of the ‘Mulberry Harbours’ (caissons), caisson launching, and for embarkation of men, vehicles and supplies.
The structures in my photo are the 'Dolphins. forming part of the pier head used to load ships departing for Normandy.