D-DAY 60th ANNIVERSARY - JUNE 2004
USS CORRY SURVIVORS TRIP TO NORMANDY FRANCE

JUNE 3, 2004

The French Navy took 22 of us, including 3 USS Corry survivors, out on the French patrol ship PLUVIER. It was a 2-hour trip from Cherbourg to the site where the USS Corry was sunk on June 6, 1944. The PLUVIER is 175 feet long.

(Video footage of this event is forthcoming.)

  photo: Gullickson
French patrol ship PLUVIER
Cherbourg, France, Navy Base


Embarking on French patrol ship PLUVIER.
 


PLUVIER commanding officer LT Glottin greets
USS Corry survivors Grant (Gully) Gullickson,
Orrin Tovson, and Moe Vestuti.


Gully talks with French diver Bertrand Sciboz.


Gully talks with French reporters.


After a 2-hour ride along the coast of Normandy,
approaching the site where the USS Corry was sunk
off Utah Beach, the French Navy provided a full dress
honor guard to remember the sacrifice of the USS Corry
on D-Day. Being presented with a full honor guard was
far more than was expected, and it touched all of us very
deeply.


Honor guard officers and enlisted men assembling.
Wreath of flowers to be placed in the water above
where Corry was sunk.


A French naval officer begins a salute to PLUVIER
commanding officer LT Glottin.


As LT Glottin looks on, Gully addresses the crowd
in remembrance of the sacrifice of the Corry and
her 24 crewmembers who were killed on D-Day. 

   photo: Bertrand Sciboz


French officers stand at attention as Carolyn Fogg
and her daughter Barbara begin to toss the
commemorative wreath of flowers overboard,
above where the Corry was sunk on D-Day.
Carolyn's husband's father Dana Fogg was
killed in action aboard the Corry on D-Day.


Wreath of flowers floats above where Corry was sunk.

   photo: Bertrand Sciboz

   photo: Bertrand Sciboz
 A French officer salutes the USS Corry as the wreath of flowers
floats behind him.


Gully places his hand over his heart during the playing
of the French national anthem and American national
anthem, as honor guard stands at attention.


Honor guard at attention.

   photo: Bertrand Sciboz
 PLUVIER commanding officer LT Glottin


Above the site where the Corry was sunk, three Corry
survivors Moe Vestuti, Gully Gullickson, and Orrin
Tovson with Saint-Marcouf islands behind them.


The Saint-Marcouf islands.


PLUVIER commanding officer LT Glottin thanks
the three Corry survivors aboard his ship for
helping the people of France during the war.

  photo: Gullickson
Corry survivors with Utah Beach behind them.

  photo: Bertrand Sciboz
 Moe Vestuti, Gully Gullickson, and Orrin Tovson

  photo: Gullickson
Corry survivors are interviewed on French TV.

  photo: Gullickson
Bertrand Sciboz translates for French TV.

  photo: Gullickson
Orrin Tovson talks to the camera with Bertrand.


Disembarking the PLUVIER.


The crew of the PLUVIER salute USS Corry
survivors Moe Vestuti, Gully Gullickson
and Orrin Tovson, as they disembark.

  photo: Gullickson
Corry survivors disembark.