Holiday to France Aug 2018 Visit to Arromanches

After visiting Batterie De Longues sur mer we went to Arromanches & parked above on 360 parking & walked down to Arromanches, views are great from the top, unfortunatly the day we visited it was high the tide for all our visit so we could not see the mulberry harour as it was mostly covered by the sea.

Arromanches is remembered as a historic place of the Normandy landings and in particular as the place where a Mulberry harbour artificial port was installed. This artificial port allowed the disembarkation of 9,000 tons of material per day.

It was on the beach of Arromanches that, during the Invasion of Normandy immediately after DDay, the Allies established an artificial temporary harbour to allow the unloading of heavy equipment without waiting for the conquest of deep water ports such as Le Havre or Cherbourg. Although at the centre of the Gold Beach landing zone, Arromanches was spared the brunt of the fighting on DDay so the installation and operation of the port could proceed as quickly as possible without damaging the beach and destroying surrounding lines of communication. The port was commissioned on 14 June 1944.

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