Storm destroys D-Day Mulberry Harbor 70 years ago today (June 19 1944)


Video: 'The World At War: Morning 4/5' (June 19, 1944, at 9:17)

(Monday, June 19, 1944; during the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — A raging Atlantic storm, the worst in June for 40 years, battered the D-Day beaches of Normandy today, casting about like matchsticks the 1,000-ton concrete caissons that formed the perimeter of a temporary Allied harbor, known as Mulberry Harbor, built off Omaha Beach.