Why German Generals Couldn't Explain How Britain Invaded Without A Port

In June nineteen forty four, the Allies attempted something military planners had long believed impossible: launching a full-scale invasion of occupied France without first capturing a working harbour. This is the remarkable true story of the Mulberry Harbours, the secret prefabricated ports that Britain designed, built, and towed across the English Channel to supply the D-Day landings at Normandy. Discover how the costly lesson of the Dieppe Raid in nineteen forty two convinced Allied commanders that a defended port could not be taken by direct assault, how Winston Churchill's famous "piers for use on beaches" memo set the project in motion, and how brilliant engineers like Hugh Iorys Hughes, Allan Beckett, and physicist John Desmond Bernal turned an outlandish idea into hundreds of thousands of tons of floating concrete and steel. Learn how Port Winston at Arromanches survived the great Channel storm, why the German high command's focus on defending major ports left them unable to explain how the invasion was being sustained, and how this engineering masterpiece helped change the course of the Second World War. A fascinating deep dive into D-Day history, Allied strategy, the Atlantic Wall, and one of the greatest feats of wartime engineering ever attempted. Subscribe for more untold stories from World War Two history.