One action that hasn't been publicized nearly as much as it should have been is how destroyers saved the day during the Normandy invasion.
When the German shore emplacements pinned the attacking forces down on the beach, a half dozen destroyers came in almost like a cavalry charge, pulled in parallel to the beach, and began pounding the German emplacements at almost point blank range. Some of the destroyers guns got so hot from constant firing that fire hoses were pouring water on them while they were firing.
With no communication, some of the destroyer's gun crews were using tanks as spotters, reasoning that anything a tank was firing at was something they should be firing at, with more fire power than the tank possessed. The tank crews caught on to the fact that immediately after they fired at a target a destroyer fired at the same target and began working with the destroyers. The destroyers decimated the German defenses and turned the tide of the invasion.
Miraculously, no destroyers suffered serious damage. As one destroyer Captain later said, "I didn't give a damn what I did to my ship as long as I could help the guys on the beach".
It would appear there are still many untold stories from WWII.
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