During and immediately after the D-Day invasion, the Navy was on constant lookout for German submarines. Bill Kenyon describes the tactics used to prevent the U-Boats from disrupting the flow of supplies and reinforcements to the beachhead.
Bill Kenyon
One of the foremost challenges of invading across the English Channel was supplying the troops that landed in Normandy for the breakout into France. Ed Reilly served in the Navy and tells of how engineers built and repaired port facilities to keep the invasion going,
Ed Reilly
The most forgotten of all the service branches is the Merchant Marines. Their contributions during the war were seldom publicized, and often ignored after the war despite the fact that they had higher casualty rates than other service branches.