survivors was the commanding officer. Corry arrived at Boston on 30 March for overhaul followed by training. Invasion of Normandy Corry cleared Norfolk on 20 April 1944 for Great Britain to participate in the staging of the Normandy invasion. Getting underway from Plymouth, England, she was the lead destroyer of the Normandy Invasion task force, escorting ships and transports across the English Channel. Upon arriving off the coast of Normandy, France, she headed for Îles Saint-Marcouf, her station for fire support on the front lines at Utah Beach in the Normandy invasion. As H-Hour (06:30) neared, when troops would begin fighting their way onto the beaches, the plane assigned to lay smoke for Corry was shot down, leaving the ship exposed to German shore batteries. Maneuvering as close as 1,000 yards from the beach, Corry fired several hundred rounds of 5-inch ammunition at numerous onshore targets. At approximately H-Hour, during a duel with a shore battery, Corry suffered several hits from 210mm (8-inch) shells in her engineering spaces amidships. With her rudder jammed, she went around in a circle before all steam was lost. Still under heavy fire, Corry began sinking rapidly with her keel broken and a foot-wide crack across her main deck amidships. After the order to abandon ship, crewmembers fought to survive in bone-chilling water for more than two hours as they awaited rescue under constant enemy fire from German shore gunners. One crewmember raised the American flag up Corrys main mast, which remained above the surface of the shallow water when the ship settled on the bottom at . Corry survivors were rescued by , , , and PT-199. Of her crew, 24 were killed and 60 were wounded. Discrepancy over the sinking of Corry About two weeks after D-Day, a detailed report stating that heavy artillery fire had sunk Corry was about to be submitted as the official loss of ship report, but it was suddenly scrapped and rewritten. This final official loss report for Corry stated on its last page that shelling received resulted in "merely incidental damage". The official loss of ship report for Corry states that at 06:33 she hit a mine, which was said to have exploded below her engineering spaces. No officers or crew were consulted for input on the rewrite of the report. Initial reports by the commanding officer state that Corry was sunk by a salvo of heavy