As part of the USS Block Island (CVE-21) HUK Group, USS Corry (DD-463) and USS Bronstein (DE-189) sank U-801 after an eighteen hour pursuit. Corry hit a mine and sank off Utah Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944 during the Normandy invasion
Categories: World War II | Ships and Submarines
 
 
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