Stormy weather uncovers D-Day history on Hampshire beach: Loading platforms known as hards emerge

A large swathe of the D-Day hards have been uncovered after stormy weather and scouring tides revealed the infrastructure that is usually buried beneath the sand at the Hampshire Beach. The concrete D-day loading platforms, built in 1942 for use by Landing Craft Tank ahead of the invasion on the beaches of Normandy, appeared in … Read more