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Along these beaches, 60 miles of beaches where the landings took place, and here at aromange, this is the site of the artificial harbor that was built. just to give you an idea of the kind of thing they had to plan for, they weren t going to take after the disasters of 1942, they were not going to take any of the harbors, the natural harbors that they could have along the coast. they were worried about doing that. so, they brought these artificial harbors like this one here, created out of gigantic, floating concrete casons, which were floated across the channel from england and were sunk here and from which they made a break water and then were able to make a pier that would bring in all the vehicles and what not that they needed to. just in the first five days, they brought in 55,000 vehicles. and we see today on the beach here some of those vehicles,