Title: "Mulberry" Pier, June, 1944 Description: The newly-completed pier leading from a "Mulberry" (an artificial harbor made up by sinking old ships and concrete caissons off the beaches) at Omaha Beach, Normandy from which hundreds of thousands of tons of equipment and supplies flowed to the Allied troops pushing inland against German forces; Date: June 18, 1944 Category: World War II Keywords: artificial docks, construction engineers, equipment, Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord, supplies, Second World War, U.S. Navy, war materials, World War II, WWII Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1680 x 1040 (1.75 MPixels) (1.62) Print Size: 14.2 x 8.8 cm; 5.6 x 3.5 inches File Size: 5.01 MB (5,250,146 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010306 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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