Embarking the D-Day Armada: Overlord Archaeology in the South
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2020-07-11

D-Day required a massive amount of infrastructure to be put into place along the south coast of England. Whilst some sites and facilities are relatively well known, others are almost completely unrecognised, despite having been constructed exclusively for Operation Neptune. 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 these sites and explains the need to recognise them before they risk being lost.



Stephen Fisher

Thames Discovery Programme
Foreshore Forum 2019