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CORRY: A D-Day Survivor's
Stories About the Destroyer that Led the Normandy Invasion
by Kevin McKernon
© 2003 Easy Rudder Press 208 pages, 56 photos/maps/images
including Corry in action on D-Day A personal, eyewitness account of the Corry in action on D-Day from leading the invasion armada across the English Channel, to heavy front-line action at Utah Beach, to the sinking of the Corry and survival in the frigid 54-degree water under constant enemy shelling until rescue some two hours later. Includes Corry U-boat action from March 1944. Also loaded with earlier anecdotal stories about life aboard ship during the war -- the many things destroyer men do while a war is being fought. Contains logs and reports from ships nearest to the Corry on D-Day, invasion maps, and Corry anti-submarine warfare logs from March 1944, including sinking of German submarine U-801 by Corry. |
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Utah Beach:
The Amphibious Landing And Airborne Operations On D-Day, June 6, 1944 -
by Joseph Balkoski © 2005 Stackpole Books pgs. 213-216, 323 Gives account of Corry in action on D-Day. Details the controversy over artillery vs. mine as cause of sinking of USS Corry. |
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Neptunus Rex - Naval Stories of the Normandy Invasion Edited by Edward F. Prados © 1998 Presidio Press pgs. 44-45, 50-58, 74 Includes D-Day account by Corry Dr. Howard A. Andersen - Saving Lives on a Sinking Ship. |
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The Longest Day
by Cornelius Ryan
© 1959 Simon and Schuster pgs. 37-40, 65, 70, 233-236, 281 Gives
account of the Corry crossing the English Channel, leading convoy to
France, |
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Destroyers in
Action
by Richard A.
Shafter © 1945 Cornell Maritime Press pgs. 133-141 Gives account of the Corry in Action on D-Day, and sinking. |
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Invasion - They're
Coming! The German Account of the D-Day Landings and the 80 Days'
Battle for France
by Paul Carell
(© 1960 - originally in the German by Gerhard Stalling Verlag entitled Sie Komen!) Reference to the Corry in 1960 translation by E. Osers is on page 119 under sub-chapter heading "Duel with the Navy," and in 1995 translation by David Johnston, reference to the Corry is on page 125 under sub-chapter "Duel with the Fleet." Tells of German Saint-Marcouf shore battery's 210-millimeter guns scoring direct hit on the Corry amidships between the bridge and forward smokestack. |
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Assault on Normandy: First-Person Accounts from the Sea Services Edited by Paul Stillwell © 1994 United States Naval Institute pgs. 38, 99, 104 Includes accounts of Corry in action on D-Day, and sinking. |
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Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II by Robert Sinclair Parkin © 1995 Spellmount Publishers pgs. 214-220 Gives account of the Corry in Action on D-Day, and sinking. |
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D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
by Stephen Ambrose © 1994 Simon and Schuster pgs. 266-267 Gives account of the Corry in Action on D-Day, and sinking. |