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" ... At Omaha and Gold, the gooseberries were just the beginning. The air-filled concrete chambers, or caissons, which weighed between 2 and 6 tons each empty, were filled with water and sunk alongside the scuttled ships. Outside the ring of sunken ships and concrete barriers, engineers lashed together a series of 200-foot floating breakwaters into a mile-long outer breakwater. Inside the breakwaters, floating docks anchored to the seabed waited for arriving ships. Steel and concrete pontoons anchored to the seabed supported 80-foot spans of flexible steel, which provided bridges between the floating docks and the waiting beaches. ... "
" ... For instance: As the procession sets forth from the castle to St. George's, the Royal Horse Artillery, who have dragged the heavy caissons bearing their "minute guns" — Napoleonic-style field cannon so called because they are ceremonially fired literally on the minute — to Windsor, will fire their cannon to mark each minute of the procession's eight-minute journey from the castle quadrangle to the Horseshoe Cloister before St. George's West Steps. Minute guns would be a feature of any British monarch's internment ceremony. ... "