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1944, Omaha Beach, Mulberry A, a floating pier created to anticipate needing supplies offloaded as fast as possible to maintain the beach

head against the Vermeck. Mulberry B at Gold Beach and then a storm three days after June 6th.

Mulberry A was completely destroyed. When you visit the Normandy beaches today, you can see chunks of it still on the shoreline.

Mulberry B survived. Nonetheless, that lesson was a hard one to get the supplies they needed.

They had to land over the beach at Omaha and maintain the American force.

All these decades later, something like a

Mulberry was proposed by the Biden administration at Gaza to feed the population. A storm came

along and broke it up. I go now to Jim Fennell, U.S. Navy retired Captain Intelligence,

who's going to connect these dots with right up to date, threat to Taiwan.

Jim, a very good evening to you. Mulberry did not work in 44.

Mulberry did not work in 23.

What have you got?

Good evening, Jim.

Good evening, John and Gordon.

Well, we have some new commercial imagery that's come out first in January from some websites in China,

and they've been analyzed by some of the good leading analysts.

And what we see is a new class of a ship.

It's been designated the Shukau class. And it's essentially a special purpose barge with a bridge on it. And it's about

total length is 850 meters.

The ship itself is what you consider maybe like a ferry transport platform.

But on the nose of it, it has 120 meter or about a 400 foot long bridge that extends from the nose of this ship, if you will, that allows material craft,

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