WE CALLED OURSELVES ROCKETBOATMEN : the Untold Stories of the Top-Secret LCS(S) Rocket Boat Missions of World War II at Sicily, Normandy (Omaha and Utah Beaches), and Southern France

Title
  1. WE CALLED OURSELVES ROCKETBOATMEN : the Untold Stories of the Top-Secret LCS(S) Rocket Boat Missions of World War II at Sicily, Normandy (Omaha and Utah Beaches), and Southern France / by William Howard Palmer, Jr.
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  1. PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA : DORRANCE Publishing Co., Inc., [2008?], ©2008.
Author
  1. Palmer, William Howard, Jr.

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  1. xv, 170 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm
Subject
  1. United States. Navy > History > World War, 1939-1945
  2. United States. Navy
  3. 1900-1999
  4. World War, 1939-1945 > Amphibious operations
  5. World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American
  6. Amphibious assault ships > United States > History > 20th century
  7. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France > Normandy
  8. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France, Southern
  9. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Italy > Sicily
  10. Military operations, Amphibious
  11. Amphibious assault ships
  12. Military campaigns
  13. Military operations, Naval > American
  14. France > Normandy
  15. Southern France
  16. Italy > Sicily
  17. United States
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. Introduced to the top secret nature of our LCS(S) rocket boat program : Ltjg. Charles S. Reder, ensigns Albert M. Low, Harry W. Tennant -- Rocket boats vs. PT boats : ensigns Albert M. Low & Harry W. Tennant -- Invasion of Sicily, operation Husky first deployment of LCS(S) rocket boats : July 10th, 1943, Ltjg. Charles S. Reder, ensigns Roscoe C. DuMond, Robert H. Goldsmith -- Expansion of the LCS(S) rocket boat program, in preparation for D-Day : Oct. 1943 - Feb. 1944, Ltjg. Charles S. Reder, ensigns Charles Roscoe Lomas & Stanley K. Jones -- Crossing the Atlantic via LST convoys : Feburary 18, 1944 - April 4, 1944, ensign Albert M. Low, gunner Yngvar Tjersland, MoMMs Jess Delgadilla & Walter V. Varnum, seaman Yogi Berra -- Arrival at England's advanced amphibious training bases : March 26, 1944 - April 20, 1944, ensign William H. Palmer -- D-Day operation Overlord at Utah Beach, northern France : June 6, 1944, ensigns Ralph Frede, Lemuel C. Laney, Albert M. Low & Stuart P. Hurley , MoMM Albert W. Coogan, S1c Harry M. Fleisher, S2c Yogi Berra, James J. Houde -- D-Day operation Overlord at Omaha Beach, northern France : June 6, 1944, ensigns Curtis L. Attwood, Herman F. Vorel, Edwin H. Lemkin, Nicholas J. Zuras, gunner Bethel Payne, coxswain George A. Bosler -- D-Day operation Dragoon, southern France : August 15, 1944, ensigns Roscoe C. Dumond, Peter J. Lojko, Nicholas J. Zuras, Leslie H. Dause, Albert M. Low, coxswain Newell Freer, gunner Clinton E. Birch, William Lowell Ford -- Evolution of rocket boat program for the invasion of Japan : phase out of 36' LCS(S) rocket boat, phase in of LSM(R), LCI(R), LCM(R), ensigns Harry W. Tennant, Herman F. Vorel.
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  1. Princeton University Library