Arromanches Normandy tour by Francois Gauthron

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22/07/2016

http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/magazine/wwii-history-magazine/

It changed the world more than any other single event in history. There have been countless thousands of published works devoted to all or of it. But

23/06/2016

Maybe you don't know that British landings of D-Day were possible thanks to help from two British X-Crafts and their crews. This fact is virtually unknown. They were the HMS X20 and HMS X23; they were midget submarines. They spent five days on seabed just yards from N**i guns. They were the first ve...

25/04/2016

www.ddayfestival.com

05/04/2016

05/04/2016

http://www.europebattlefieldstours.com/Gold-Sector/Arromanches4.html

Arromanches was the site of the British Mulberry (Mulberry B), and today its remains dominate the seascape of this small port. The artificial ports were the brainchild of Winston Churchill, who said he conceived the idea in 1917. Twenty-seven years later, two were actually constructed: Mulberry A at…

05/04/2016

http://www.europebattlefieldstours.com/Gold-Sector/Some-details-about-Mulberries5.html

The Mulberry harbors were conceived after «Operation Jubilee» on the French port of Dieppe, August 19. 1942. The German defence of the coast of Western Europe was built on formidable defences around ports and port facilities. As Germans claims «Who holds the Ports, holds Europe» because of the stren…