D-Day Stories: USS Corry

[Weatherman2020]

On this day in 1944 the invasion to liberate Europe begins. Among the thousands of events taking place, this is the USS Corry, DD-463. She spent over an hour sailing up and down the beach firing into German positions and drawing fire away from the troops landing. She would sometimes come so close to the beach her hull would drag on the bottom.

These are photos from PT-507 as shells miss her, hit her, and eventually sink her. As she settled into the shallow water a surviving crewman hoisted an American flag up her main mast sticking above the water, where it stayed during the invasion. 24 crewmen gave their all.

 

[Oddball]

 

[harmonica]

great story

the TIn Cans did not have much armor at all compared to the BBs/etc

 

[Syriusly]

Thanks for the story.

I also like the story of the U.S.S. Texas's role- a WW1 battleship fighting in WW2

some of the destroyers providing gunfire support closed near the shoreline, almost grounding themselves to fire on the Germans. Texas also closed to the shoreline; at 12:23, Texas closed to only 3,000 yd (2,700 m) from the water's edge, firing her main guns with very little elevation to clear the western exit D-1, in front of Vierville. Among other things, she fired upon snipers and machine gun nests hidden in a defile just off the beach. At the conclusion of that mission, the battleship attacked an enemy anti-aircraft battery located west of Vierville.[46