Captains
Contributors: Gail M. Hayden (Editor); Eric Snyder (Illustrator); Martha McBride (Photographer)
Publisher: Jona Books
Published: June 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780965792981
Subjects: General; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: Cora Lee Cadgett, bony and blonde, stared down at her daughter and frowned.
Description: In the early morning hours of April 28, 1944, the fog of war descended on a convoy of eight ships carrying thousands of American soldiers to an invasion rehearsal on the beaches of an obscure English village. The full-scale exercise of an assault on a beach under the code name Operation Tiger was on its way. What happened next, led to the disaster. Torpedoes from German E boats, fuel from the sinking and damaged LST's that spilt into the water and caught fire, confusion, darkness and open fire turned planned military exercise into hell.