D-Day's winning engineering: making concrete float

When the tides of Normandy are out, something emerges that looks like the wreck of a giant train. It lies within sight of the shore.

Without this artificial port, D-Day could not have succeeded. This is the ghost harbour of Arromanches.

The concrete floating caissons, known as Phoenixes, were towed across the Channel from England the next day, to form the walls and piers of what was called a Mulberry harbour.

Frédéric Sommier, the head of the Arromanches Museum, said: "All the main ports, Ch...
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