C Company, Author at Cardinal News

Without a deepwater port, constant supply and reinforcements were needed to break out of the beachhead. The solution was an artificial harbor built in England and brought to Normandy. Known by the codename “Mulberry,” two of these harbors were designed to unload men and supplies. Thousands of soldiers and sailors were involved in this effort. Spud barges that floated up and down with the tide formed the center of the harbor’s unloading activity. They were joined to the shore by floating roadways known as “Whales.” Courtesy of National Archives and National World War II Museum.

C Company from Harrisonburg: ‘Despite this serious injury he continued’

by C Company May 31, 2024May 30, 2024

“While in town the men encountered Brigadier General Norman D. Cota who was calmly twirling his pistol on his finger. He said to them, ‘Where the hell have [you] been boys?'”