We Called Ourselves Rocketboatmen: The Untold Stories of the Top-Secret LSC(S) Rocket Boat Missions of World War II at Sicily, Salerno, Normandy (Omaha and Utah Beaches), and Southern France (80th Anniversary of D-Day Edition)

By Jr. William Howard Palmer

D-Day, June 6, 1944--a day never to be forgotten. More than 156,000 troops crossed the English Channel from England to Normandy, making it the largest seaborne invasion in history. Leading the pre-invasion ashore were the brave, but little known, rocketboatmen, as they called themselves. Their job, as the first close up Naval offense, was to sof

• Language: English
• Publisher: Go To Publish
• Release date: Jan 10, 2024
• ISBN: 9781647499631

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The events, people, and places herein are depicted to the best recollection of the author, who assumes complete and sole responsibility for the accuracy of this narrative.

We Called Ourselves Rocketboatmen

The Untold Stories of the Top-Secret LCS(S) Rocket Boat Missions of World War II

at Sicily, Salerno, Normandy (Omaha and Utah Beaches), and Southern France

(80th Anniversary of D-Day Edition)

Copyright © 2023 William H. Palmer, Jr.

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