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Joe Steinbring

Arromanches-les-Bains

A seafront square under a gray sky, flags along the seawall, and concrete caissons out at sea.
The seafront, with the remains of the Mulberry harbor offshore.2019 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring
Static offline map showing Arromanches-les-Bains in France with a location pin.

Arromanches-les-Bains was the last stop of our day trip to Normandy on October 31, 2019, before the drive back to Paris. The town sits on Gold Beach, where British troops came ashore on D-Day, and in the days that followed the Allies built an artificial harbor here, one of two Mulberry harbors, to land supplies before they had captured a port. The concrete caissons of its breakwater are still sitting in the sea off the beach.

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  • A panorama of hotels, cafés and shops, parked cars and flagpoles, and caissons on the horizon.

    The square on the seafront.

    2019 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • A massive concrete caisson stranded on the beach, seen between a British and a French flag.

    Caissons from the Mulberry harbor, still in the sea since 1944.

    2019 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

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