75th Anniversary of D-Day: Those Temporary Harbors Were Called Mulberry Harbours

From Wikipedia.

I posed the question of what happened to the two temporary harbors set up after D-Day and was directed here.

It says they were temporary harbors developed in England during World War II to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo following D-Day.

After the Allies seized control of the beaches two prefabricated harbors were brought over  in sections across the English Channel and assembled off Omaha Beach, referred to as "Mulberry A" and Gold Beach, "Mulberry B."

Plans were to use them until French ports could be seized.  However, that did not happen right away.

I will eventually get around to writing more about these temporary harbors in my World War II blog.

--Old Secesh