21/05/2020 | 6 p.m.
For the second Solent harbour webinar, we were joined by historian and archaeologist Stephen Fisher. An expert on D-Day embarkation, Stephen talked us through the south coast’s role in Operation Neptune.
D-Day required a massive amount of groundwork to be put into place along the south coast of England. Whilst some of this preparation is well known - such as the role of Mulberry and PLUTO - numerous infrastructure changes are almost completely unrecognised, despite being exclusively for Operation Overlord. All across the south are main roads that owe their unusual width to parking areas for tanks, slipways for pleasure boats that once embarked men and vehicles onto landing craft, and breakwaters and ferry facilities made from components of Mulberry Harbour. This talk explores the role and archaeology of these sites and the need to better recognise them before they risk being lost.
You can read a little bit more about D-Day embarkation in Stephen’s guest blog here.
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