MODEL OF "MULBERRY HARBOUR"
(Special Correspondent.)
BEING SHIPPED TO DOMINION
Received Thursday, 8.10 p.m. LONDON, April 4. A miniature model of a "mulberry harbour, ' ' used hy the Allied forces on the Normandy beach during the invasioh, will shortly he shipped to New &ealand. It covers an area of 1600 square feet and -will he exhibited iir different parts of the Dominion. The "mulberry harb'our ' ' was once descrihed as Britain's most-i effective "secret weapon" of the war, since it enabled the iuvasion to be launched m a locality least suspected I)y the Germans, as they considered the harbour facilities inadequate. The model4 will he shipped in 47 cases.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 April 1946, Page 5
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