It Must've Been Incredible to Behold

Even in this crappy weather I could make out enough of the artificial port to realize what a gargantuan task building it must've been. After the British, Canadian and American troops had finally gotten off the invasion beaches an Allied fleet towed old derelict ships into this area and sunk them to create breakwaters. Then more ships towed huge concrete caissons and steel bridgeworks that were deployed to create a humongous manmade harbor for unloading supplies and men. Another artificail port was built farther West near Omaha Beach, but it was destroyed by a storm shortly after being deployed. These two artificial ports were codenamed "Mulberries". The port whose remains we are looking at here was Port Winston.