The five artificial port walkways set up on land

The D Day Omaha association had managed to land five walkways of the artificial port of Omaha. On Monday, May 24, the Cadel company used a crane with a capacity of seventy tons to place these twenty-ton elements on their supports, to the nearest centimeter. Concrete pillars kept them two meters from the ground.

Michel Brissard and a group of friends had carried this construction site. He compared the whole to a giant mechanic: the elements were precisely adjusted while maintaining their flexibility. He said he admired their design and the state of steel after sixty years.

A Navy blue treatment and painting were to allow a conservation of at least half a century, provided that maintenance was maintained every seven years. The cost of the product, more than three hundred euros per pot, was emphasized. The floor, consisting of metal plates of two hundred and fifty kilograms each, was to arrive within the following week and be installed.

The objective was an identical reassembly. Some footbridges still bore their place of manufacture in England or Scotland, as well as the "Colleville" destination engraved in steel. Exhausted by months of work, Michel Brissard planned to continue until the inauguration of June 9.

A party was planned with a concert, projection on a giant screen, fireworks and the passage of an amphibious vehicle designated as a "Duck", as well as other vintage vehicles, on the walkways. A second photograph recalled that a dozen volunteers had been working daily on their assembly for a month.

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