{"id":4461,"date":"2016-06-06T16:36:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:00:17","slug":"the-lesser-known-logistics-strategy-behind-d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/company-news\/the-lesser-known-logistics-strategy-behind-d-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lesser Known Logistics Strategy Behind D-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, June 6th, marks the 72nd Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the first day alone, it took 1,000+ planes and 5,000+ ships to transport 160,000 Allied troops into action. It would become the largest amphibious invasion in human history, and marked the beginning of liberating occupied France.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lesser known fact is that the entire operation relied upon a <\/span><b>secret and bold logistics strategy that had never been done before:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> building and shipping an entire sea port, two of them, across the English Channel. These &#8220;Mulberry Harbours&#8221; allowed the Allies to ship massive quantities of men, materials, and supplies without having to rely on taking a large French port. It would take 6 months for the Allies to take a key port, but by then the Mulberry Harbours had done their job, facilitating the transport of over 2.0 Million soldiers, 500,000 vehicles, and 3 Million tons of supplies.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We at uShip salute the brave soldiers, sailors, airmen, and resistance fighters that secured the liberation of France, and greatly admire the logistical genius behind the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, June 6th, marks the 72nd Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. On the first day alone, it took 1,000+ planes and 5,000+ ships to transport 160,000 Allied troops into action. It would become the largest amphibious invasion in human history, and marked the beginning of liberating occupied France. A lesser known fact is&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/company-news\/the-lesser-known-logistics-strategy-behind-d-day\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":4470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news"],"acf":{"blog_post_content":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}