Arromanches

Second day of the vacation and we did a bit of the D-Day beaches (Pegasus Bridge and Arromanches), then we mooched around Bayeaux and Caen. We did not bother with the tapestry in Bayeaux but did go see the grave of William the Conqueror in Caen.

The main photo is one of the caissons left in Arrowmanches, which are the remains of the Mulberry harbour built here in the days just following D-Day. An amazing feat of engineering, it was made in the UK and then dragged across the channel and then built in Arrowmanches. It took about one week to assemble in the days immediately after D-Day. In the next months over 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies were landed on the harbour.

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