The D-Day landings went down in history, but without a sufficient port to offload all the supplies for the entire Western Front onto, the invasion of Normandy would be short-lived. The answer to this problem was to build a temporary, but giant floating harbour of concrete and steel, named Mulberry Harbour. The United Kingdom got to work constructing the Mulberry Harbours before floating them across to France secretly just before D-Day. Two Mulberry Harbours (the first at Omaha Beach and the second at Gold Beach) were used to offload 2.5…
