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LINKS
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USS Corry (DD-817) website http://www.uss-corry-dd817.org (This is the third destroyer named USS Corry, which served the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1981.) |
U-boat Archive http://www.uboatarchive.net An excellent website with extensive records, photos and information on U-boats by Capt. Jerry Mason (USN, ret.) Has extensive information on U-801 and U-1059, which had survivors rescued by the USS Corry. |
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Museum of the Saint Marcouf Battery, which hit the USS Corry with a
salvo of 210-mm shells on D-Day. http://www.batterie-marcouf.com [Click British Flag on the home page to enter] There is an excellent photo slide show about the battery. |
USS Block Island (CVE-21 / CVE-106) website http://www.ussblockisland.org/ The Block Island CVE-21 is the aircraft carrier the USS Corry sailed with on hunter-killer patrol during the sinking of the German U-boats U-801 and U-1059 in March 1944. The CVE-21 Block Island was torpedoed and sunk May 29, 1944 by U-549. A second USS Block Island (CVE-106) was commissioned afterward and served in the Pacific during World War II. |
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Maisy Battery museum. Located not far from Pointe du Hoc, this formidable Normandy artillery battery was able to fire on both Omaha and Utah Beaches. After the war it was buried and long forgotten until recently discovered by Gary Sterne, a good friend of the USS Corry. |
USS Shubrick (DD-639) website http://www.ussshubrick.com/ The USS Shubrick, one of the five front-line destroyers off Utah Beach on D-Day, guarded the eastern flank of the troop landing lanes and engaged in heavy combat action. Be sure to check out the slide shows. They're excellent. |
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All about Hitler's Atlantik Wall http://www.atlantikwall.co.uk At the bottom, in the google search field, type in Marcouf and search atlantikwall.co.uk and you will find pages about the Saint Marcouf battery which hit the USS Corry with a salvo of 210-mm shells on D-Day. |
View Normandy wrecks - http://www.ceresm.com/ [Click British Flag on CERES home page to enter] CERES = Normandy Underwater Research Studies (Centre Européen de Recherches et d'Etudes Sous-marines) |
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More about Hitler's
Atlantik Wall
http://www.atlantikwall.fr/en/atlantikwall/atlantikwall.htm |
Excellent World War II Navy Radio Site by Rob Flory: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~navyradio/index.html |
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WEBSITES ABOUT DESTROYERS: Destroyers Online http://www.destroyersonline.com/usndd/ Tin Can Sailors -- Destroyer veterans organization - 25,000 members) http://www.destroyers.org/ Destroyer History Foundation http://www.destroyerhistory.org/ USS Corry (DD-463) Page: http://destroyerhistory.org/benson-gleavesclass/usscorry/ Official U.S.Navy Destroyer Website http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/destroyers/destroyers.asp NavSource Destroyer Photo Archives http://www.navsource.org/archives/05idx.htm |
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US Naval Historical Center website http://www.history.navy.mil/ |
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