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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. |
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USS Shubrick (DD-639) website http://www.ussshubrick.com/ USS Shubrick, one of the five front-line destroyers off Utah Beach, 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. |
USS Block Island (CVE-21 / CVE-106) website http://www.ussblockisland.org/ The 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 WWII. |
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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) |
Museum of the Saint Marcouf Battery, which hit the USS Corry with a salvo of 210-mm shells on D-Day. (French) http://www.batterie-marcouf.com Excellent 24-photo slide show about the battery: http://www.batterie-marcouf.com/photos.htm |
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All about Hitler's Atlantik Wall http://www.atlantikwall.fr/en/welcome.htm Specifically on the Saint Marcouf Battery, which hit the USS Corry with a salvo of 210-mm shells on D-Day: http://www.atlantikwall.fr/en/atlantikwall/normandie/marcouf.htm |
More 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. |
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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/index.html 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 Benson-Livermore Class Destroyers Website http://www.geocities.com/bensonclass/ |
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US Naval Historical Center website http://www.history.navy.mil/ |
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Yoy-search.com -- http://www.Yoy-search.com a convenient interface to ten types of search. |