Sortie from Salcombe, The D Day Story of the Ships and Men of Convoy U2A

by Roger Barrett  and James H. Rhodes| Paperback, 72 pages

Leading the first assault on the Normandy beaches on D-Day 1944 was a small flotilla of U.S. Navy warships that sailed from Salcombe for UTAH Beach on the 3rd of June.
This book relives those momentous days through the eyes of Salcombe’s residents and the American sailors of Convoy U2A who bravely took their ships into harm’s way.

Written by Roger Barrett, Chair of Salcombe Maritime Museum & James H. Rhodes, the son of Howard Rhodes, the commanding officer of LCF18, one of the gunships that sailed in Convoy U2A.