Mulberry Harbours | How disaster at Dieppe led to D-Day success

Two years before D-Day and Operation Overlord, the Allies mounted a daring rehearsal raid on the French port of Dieppe. The attack ended in disaster, but out of its ashes came one of the greatest unsung inventions of the Second World War, one that would keep the Allies in the fight when they returned to invade Normandy: the Mulberry Harbours.

Unable to capture a French port, the Allies decided to build their own, float them across the channel and built them on the French coast. Together, the Mulberry Harbours brought in the millions of tonnes of supplies needed to help the Allies break out of Normandy and into Germany itself. In this episode of IWM Stories, Sean Rehling explains how they worked and why they were so effective.

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7 clever invention from D-Day: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/7-clever-innovations-used-on-d-day

Why D-Day was so important to Allied victory: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/why-d-day-was-so-important-to-allied-victory

10 things you need to know about D-Day: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-10-things-you-need-to-know-about-d-day

Tactics and the cost of fighting in Normandy: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/tactics-and-the-cost-of-victory-in-normandy

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0:00 Disaster at Dieppe
1:03 Lessons learned
2:49 How the Mulberry worked
5:00 D-Day
6:04 The storm
7:02 Impact of the Mulberrys

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