Landing Ship USS LST-393 with her bow doors open, sails past HMCS MAYFLOWER off the Normandy beachhead on 7 June 1944. LST-393 survived the war and is now a Museum Ship in Muskegon, Michigan on Lake Michigan. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB060)
USN Landing Ship -Normandy
HMCS MAYFLOWER steams past an American landing ship and her landing craft off the Normandy beachhead. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy -Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB049)
Friendly Fire Incident -Normandy
A wounded sailor from the cableship HMTS Monarch is transferred to HMCS TRENTONIAN after the two allied ships came under friendly fire from USS PLUNKETT off the Normandy coast on the night of 12-13 June 1944. See HMCS TRENTONIAN: A Victim Of Friendly Fire Photo credit SBA A. Singleton courtesy of Bruce Keir, RCNVR, Stoker, HMCS […]