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Special
D-Day Plus 60 Years - The Gallant Destroyers of
D-Day...
The
Gallant Destroyers of D-Day
By Thomas B. Allen, Naval History, June 2004
"The big-gun battleships softened the German defenses and
made for dramatic newsreel footage 60 years ago. But the spunky
destroyers in the Normandy Invasion—including the Emmons
(left) and Doyle (background right) in Dwight Shepler’s
dramatic combat art—came within less than 1,000 yards from the
shore, providing direct gunfire support for troops on the beach."
"On D-Day, as men were
landing and dying on the Normandy beaches, destroyers were
fighting another battle, seared in the memories of survivors. They
and their lost shipmates were the seafarers of D-Day, veterans not
only of the invasion’s Operation Overlord but also of Operation
Neptune, the code name for the battle’s naval and amphibious
actions.
D-Day is always the story of brave men struggling across beaches
and then fighting their way inland. Another story, however, was
unfolding at sea. At least 200 ships and landing craft sank off
the beaches. Among them were three U.S. destroyers and three
British destroyers, including one manned by Norwegian officers and
crew. The losses began on D-Day, 6 June 1944, and continued into
July."
"Among the nearly
7,000 ships, boats, and amphibious craft of Operation Neptune were
34 U.S. destroyers and destroyer escorts. Many of the destroyers
had begun their D-Day mission escorting the battleships and
cruisers that would bombard the Normandy coast from several miles
off shore. Newsreel coverage of D-Day inevitably began with the
thundering barrages of the big guns, while overhead, waves of
Allied aircraft headed for Normandy to pulverize what Adolf Hitler
called the Atlantic Wall, “impregnable against every
enemy.”..."
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