World War II Invasion of France - Operation Overlord
Lorries and jeeps driving off the Mulberry harbour at Gold Beach Arromanches. A Mulberry was a prefabricated harbour . Over 8,000 men worked for eight months to build these floating structures which, when finished together weighed nearly a million tonnes and in addition to the concrete used involved 110,000 tonnes of steel.
June 1944
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Normandy landings

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World War II Invasion of France - Operation Overlord
Lorries and jeeps driving off the Mulberry harbour at Gold Beach Arromanches. A Mulberry was a prefabricated harbour . Over 8,000 men worked for eight months to build these floating structures which, when finished together weighed nearly a million tonnes and in addition to the concrete used involved 110,000 tonnes of steel.
June 1944

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Jun 1944

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