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Mulberry Harbour

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Mulberry Harbour
n
(Historical Terms) either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
[from the code name Operation Mulberry]


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uk CAPTION(S): Callum Kenney, 11, and Alex Powlowski, 13, on Arromanche Beach with the remains of a Mulberry Harbour used after D-Day in 1944.
After working on the famous Mulberry Harbour for the D-Day landings he made his way through France, Belgium and Germany with his regiment.
He knows the secrets of the Mulberry Harbour project by which the Allies will be able to bring supplies to inhospitable coasts.
 
 
 
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