ADMIRALTY PHOTOGRAPHS
USE BY INVASION FORCES RUGBY, Oct. 22. Nearly 700,000 photographs from the •Admiralty Photographic Library went over in landing craft and warships to Normandy on D-Day, and contributed largely to the success of the assault. The Admiralty makes this point m again inviting the public to submit photographs—this time of Far Eastern scenes or subjects. Vast quantities of “blitz hardcore’’— rubble from bombed sites in London and other cities —were used in the Allies’ invasion preparations and in the construction of a floating harbour for the Normandy beaches. An entire labour force worked a seven-day week and every kind of mechanical plant was brought into operation. Large quantities were obtained from Portsmouth and Birmingham, involving the running of special daily trains.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25674, 24 October 1944, Page 5
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