Destroyer USS Glennon under fire from German shore batteries off the French coast on June 9th 1944

USS Glennon (DD-620) was a US Navy Gleaves-class destroyer launched on August 26th 1942 and commissioned on October 8th that same year. After shakedown training along the New England coast, Glennon guarded troops and supply convoys for the Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy. She was in action during the Amphibious Battle of Gela, fought from July 9th-15th 1943. Glennon continued to operate in the Mediterranean Sea and returned to New York on December 3rd 1943. The destroyer then made two round-trip convoy escort voyages to the British Isles and one to Gibraltar. She arrived in New York from Gibraltar on April 22nd 1944, and stood out of that port on May 5th with a task group which arrived at Belfast, Northern Ireland, on the 14th in preparation for the Normandy landings. Assigned to Assault Force “U“ of the Western Naval Task Force, she arrived in the Baie de la Seine, France, on June 6th 1944. After patrolling around the bombardment group for submarines and torpedo boats, she joined in gunfire support of tr