Shore operations of the Engineer Special Brigades and 11th Port

The port operations on land of the 2 Special Brigades of the Engineering and the 11th Port

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Failed and unloaded cargo directly

(details) 2 small coasters that have been abandoned on the beach — (details) 2 small caboters that have been abandoned on the beach

Direct discharges on the beach
from RFs or barges LBV or LBU or LCI

(details) A rhinoferry docks directly on the beach, held in place by track tractors

Collection document: Shore operations of the Engineer Special Brigades and 11th Port

Causeways

These floating carriageways, built and attached to the strike and made of assembled metal casings, are used to unload LCT, Rhino and LCM

(details) Soldiers just landed on causeway — (details) Soldiers just landed on the causeway

(details) The west road ahead of the Ruquet — (details) The west road in front of the Ruquet

The Hardelay villa, notice the sand and pebble slope against the dike, and the sign sign on the cliff (limit Dog Green/Dog White)

Posts for redeployment
ducks/trucks

The ducks were loaded at sea with the cargo ships (the dockers, handlers and attendants of the loading masts were soldiers of the Port Companies). The ducks were then unloaded on land by engineering track cranes in trucks that delivered the equipment to the depots located in inland requisitioned grasslands.
Since ducks were the rarest material, everything had to be organized so that they waited as little as possible.

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(details) the transfer post of St Laurent

(details) the transfer post of the descent of Vierville

The transfer station in front of the Ruquet

Marking of beaches

(details) A position of "Beachmaster", beach master.

The maintenance workshops of the "ducks"

Amphibian truck companies were often made up of black American soldiers. At the time, segregation was normal in the US Army and the black units at Omaha Beach were those of the transport and the balloon battalion.
In the army, only a few fighting units were experimentally black (including a tank battalion). In the USNavy, however, there was no official segregation.

The camp of a "canard" company

(details) Maintenance of "duck" propellers in a workshop of an amphibious truck company (Coloured Company), cad composed of black Americans with frame — (details) Maintenance of "duck" propellers in a workshop of an amphibious truck company (Coloured company, cad composed of American blacks with white frame)

The road down to Vierville; trucks descend via the Chemin du Côtis "This is return road for empty ducks and trucks, other road is at left. Ducks bring supplies as fa — The descent of Vierville, the trucks descend by the way of the Côtis "This is return road for empty ducks and trucks, other road is at left. Ducks bring supplies as far as cranes at center. Load is transferred to trucks, and empty Ducks go back for another load at right".

Sometimes coasters used the port of Port-en-Bessin to unload goods destined for the Americans, after failing in the port:

(details) A caboter discharges directly into the low tide pre-port, while children play. This happened when the port of Oimaha Beach was out — (details) A caboter dumps directly into the low tide pre-port, while children play. This happened when the port of Oimaha Beach was out of service after the storm of June 19-21, 44. The trucks are 6t Macks instead of the usual 2t5 GMCs

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