Thanks for that post. Mile after mile of LST’s, the workhorse of the invastion, disgorging troops and cargo. The logistics challenge was immense, not just to get an army of a quarter million to Normandy, but keep an ever increasing force supplied with ammo, POL, and food. To accomplish that across a sea to a hostile shore was a task I doubt any other nation in the world at that time could have accomplished.
The Allies knew the logistics were an issue; so did the Germans. The German strategy was to deprive the Allies of a serviceable port. Brest and Cherbourg were captured after hard fighting, and the Germans thoroughly destroyed the port facilities. Most other ports were garrisoned and held out through May 1945. The Allied temporary solution was the Mulberry, although only one survived the June storm.