D-Day / Mulberry Harbours - Battle Stations documentary
The Mulberry Harbours were floating portable harbours developed and built by the British during the Second World War. After the Normandy beachheads were successfully held by the Allies following the D-Day invasion of Tuesday June 6th 1944, two prefabricated concrete harbours were floated in sections across the English Channel and assembled off 'Omaha' beach (Mulberry A) and 'Gold' beach (Mulberry B). Once in place, they made possible the offloading of cargo onto the beaches. The Normandy Landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) remain the largest seaborne invasion in history.
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I am such a huge WWll buff I love watching any little bit of true blue info from the era
Just the size of operations like this and WWII in general is mind blowing. When you think about our recent wars, hesco barriers, aluminum matted runways. Thes guys were building concrete gun positions six feet thick of reinforced concrete. The entire maginot line! The sub pens in France impenetrable to bombs. Unreal the scale of everything that came from this war
Nothing like watching old-timey films of men organizing logistics! Anchor your pontoons folks, every single one.
Outstanding..... Internal wrangling could have jeopardized the whole operation....... thankfully history shows it didn't......I lived 10 miles from the operation on the south coast so this is ....close to home
Those blokes who made port Churchill from labourers to engineers did a mighty fine job indeed. It's a shame the yankscut too many corners to be the first to land ashore with supplies. It slowed down proceedings.
@Seacreature503
4 жыл бұрын
Be grateful we came to help at all
@darylcarriere2220
3 жыл бұрын
At Least Play The U-Boat Segment.
@nickdanger3802
Жыл бұрын
Source?
@wor53lg50
9 ай бұрын
Worcester....
At Least Play The U-Boat Segment
It annoys one terribly to hear old posh British dudes WAY over-using the word; "one," in place of every possessive pronoun imaginable lol it's almost as if one had never experienced one who used words like, "I," "they," or, "we," before in one's life or something. It's clearly irritating enough that one finds it necessary, or uncontrollably compelling, for one to take one's time and one's energy to try coming up with a comment complaining about it underneath the video in which one had heard it happening so inordinately. One would think it would be easy, too. Laying it out with the appropriate amounts of wit and sarcasm lol but one would be mistaken, all one can do is settle upon a sufficient mixture of clever and witty. Ultimately just hoping one managed to get one's point across. Know what one means?! 🤣✌ (How many "one's" is that, anyway? I lost count.)
@steveforster9764
2 жыл бұрын
It's called English.
@donaldreynolds6857
Жыл бұрын
Those old posh British dudes helped save the world from a nightmarish future so I'll grant them a lot of slack if they can't talk properly like us Oklahomans.
@stever1053
Жыл бұрын
Don't mock the english language pal, just look at how it has been bastardised by other english speaking nations mostly the usa.
@wor53lg50
Жыл бұрын
If you yanks dont like the english language, then speak another one nobody forced you to!! Maybe spanish or french even arab...im getting sick and tired of my country and country folk getting knocked all the time in YT comments with anything to do with brits, its like some sort of sick in the head witch hunt..if people find british stuff annoying then dont click on it..
@jean-lucpicard5510
Жыл бұрын
@@donaldreynolds6857 You Americans and the English language are very much strangers. But thanks for the recognition in their part of ridding the world of Nazis.