{"id":75228,"date":"2022-11-28T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=75228"},"modified":"2022-11-27T12:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:28:04","slug":"mulberry-harbours-rhinos-whales-beetles-phoenixs-and-spuds-against-the-axis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/11\/28\/mulberry-harbours-rhinos-whales-beetles-phoenixs-and-spuds-against-the-axis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulberry Harbours &#8211; Rhinos, Whales, Beetles, Phoenixs and Spuds against the Axis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1aGU2JQ2jDg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Drachinifel<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 13 Jul 2022<\/p>\n<p>Today we take a look at the artificial harbours designed, built and then installed on the Normandy beaches in 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to @Think Defence for finding and collating so many images and letting me use them! Follow them on Twitter or on their website for more interesting articles!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3N3eExBbkNjdHhubm5MX1ltUkN2SkMxSmNWZ3xBQ3Jtc0trZWpralFURi1WZFhRZGdIUjNOLVR5eE9Td0JUOTlrcU5FUVpGTTh2cnIyQmtiLVU2VVZKcUZkaVdXRlhOQTVmWGJZU2FIWVFoTFlqYm45T0ZUeHQ3VXZjbFcxSDlBQ3VfVlVpa01yWmJLcDlQdkFuRQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thinkdefence.co.uk%2Fthe-mulberry-harbours%2F&#038;v=1aGU2JQ2jDg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.thinkdefence.co.uk\/the-mu&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHd1dER4RzI2WEJheElwNnQ5MVFyZlhWN3MxZ3xBQ3Jtc0trd0wwRDltYUlxMWV2YXMybXdCbW5XYzEtSlNuc1dTWC03RHZBTVIwQ2NQOWFjTHBTaXZjUXg0d1NmcFFySGdlSDhZLWdtM3NxSTJON2Izcjk4WHpMcDdEekd2dWh5NmJ2eVFLUXBvTkFtRk5USVNrNA&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FGuy-Hartcup-Code-Name-Mulberry%2Fdp%2FB00NBGPRRG&#038;v=1aGU2JQ2jDg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Guy-Hartcup-&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUhKV3lJSms2b0xBM0s2aTZYSjZmTHZ3UTFfQXxBQ3Jtc0ttVWp2WC1JMm1vQTNfbUcxSFZQM1FZeXJTYmhpdlR1X2ZkTlNEVzQ1NEV5THpiODdPYU9aR3NKanVuVWZ3LWdWSmlZaTMyNnhuQVBkSVhGNzVuazZBOVBxS253UFhJYXJqUWhIaHdYazE2dF9uZlVJcw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FHarbour-Goes-War-Mulberry-Happen%2Fdp%2F1873547307&#038;v=1aGU2JQ2jDg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Harbour-Goes&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free naval photos and more &#8211; www.drachinifel.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>Want to support the channel? 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www.amazon.co.uk\/shop\/drachinifelDrydock <\/p>\n<p>Episodes in podcast format &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-21912004\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-21912004<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/NCMEpicMusic\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/NCMEpicMusic<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>bara922<\/strong><br \/>\n10 days ago<br \/>\nI cracked up at this line. &#8220;Taking a collection of mad scientists, garden shed inventors, young troublemakers, pyromaniacs and cat herders and giving them all a warehouse full of interesting spare parts and after locking them up in there telling them if they came up with something interesting to help them beat the Nazis there might be a second or possibly even a third warehouse in it for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of people I knew who went to MIT. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-28-at-09-50-54-Mulberry-Harbours-\u2013-Rhinos-Whales-Beetles-Phoenixs-and-Spuds-against-the-Axis-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-28-at-09-50-54-Mulberry-Harbours-\u2013-Rhinos-Whales-Beetles-Phoenixs-and-Spuds-against-the-Axis-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-78262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-28-at-09-50-54-Mulberry-Harbours-\u2013-Rhinos-Whales-Beetles-Phoenixs-and-Spuds-against-the-Axis-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-28-at-09-50-54-Mulberry-Harbours-\u2013-Rhinos-Whales-Beetles-Phoenixs-and-Spuds-against-the-Axis-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-28-at-09-50-54-Mulberry-Harbours-\u2013-Rhinos-Whales-Beetles-Phoenixs-and-Spuds-against-the-Axis-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-28-at-09-50-54-Mulberry-Harbours-\u2013-Rhinos-Whales-Beetles-Phoenixs-and-Spuds-against-the-Axis-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drachinifel Published 13 Jul 2022 Today we take a look at the artificial harbours designed, built and then installed on the Normandy beaches in 1944. Many thanks to @Think Defence for finding and collating so many images and letting me use them! Follow them on Twitter or on their website for more interesting articles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1117,7,5,15,13,230],"tags":[974,140,1419,174,1066,1245],"class_list":["post-75228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-france","category-history","category-military","category-technology","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-d-day","tag-design","tag-drachinifel","tag-innovation","tag-logistics","tag-normandy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-jzm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78268,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75228\/revisions\/78268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}