1944 D-Day by Tucker-Jones Anthony & Tucker-Jones Anthony

Author:Tucker-Jones, Anthony & Tucker-Jones, Anthony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2019-05-20T00:00:00+00:00

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SMASHING THE MULBERRIES

In part thanks to the ‘Funnies’, the Allies successfully landed 155,000 troops, 6,000 vehicles – including 900 tanks – 600 guns and about 4,000 tons of supplies on 6 June. It was simply a quite remarkable achievement. Shipping elements of the Mulberry harbours over to Normandy also commenced on D-Day. Getting the artificial harbours across the English Channel was an enormous technical challenge from start to finish.

According to Colonel Belchem:

In all, some two million tons of preformed steel and concrete had to be towed or carried by sea to form two Mulberries, including more than 200 Caissons, some of them the size of five-storey buildings, and 70 block-ships. All available tugs in Britain, and even some from America, were requisitioned for the massive towing operation.1

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