After heavy fighting the British established a beach head at Arromanches, a town on the coastline of Gold.
Here they positioned one of the 2 “Mulberry Harbours” specially built for the invasion – the other was on Omaha but it was is destroyed by a storm a week after the invasion
The Mulberry was an engineering and logistical marvel. It consisted of a number of huge steel containers which were towed from England, then pinned and hinged together with a hinged ramp leading to the shore. Thousands of tons of equipment, tanks, trucks and other supplies were off loaded onto this harbour and brought to shore.s
At Arromanches is an excellent museum mainly depicting the Mulberrys and how they were operated.
A new 360 degree movie theatre using 9 projectors was opened in 2006. It is an amazingly realistic experience viewing the film shown there and combined with its special sound effects one feels that you are in the middle of the battle
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