SS Jeremiah O'Brien (2nd Edition), The History of a Liberty Ship From the Battle of the Atlantic to the 21st Century

SS Jeremiah O'Brien (2nd Edition), The History of a Liberty Ship From the Battle of the Atlantic to the 21st Century by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781889901459.

This is the history of the Liberty ship SS Jeremiah OBrien, an active museum ship in San Francisco Bay. She is was the first ship to sail out of a mothball fleet under her own power. She was the only ship from the D-Day armada to return for the 50th Anniversary of that event in 1994. Through personal interviews and the diaries of the World War II crew, and personal accounts of the Return to Normandy voyage crew, the reader is aboard to share it all; sailing in convoy through ice storms, hurricanes and giant seas; dodging enemy wolf packs and torpedoes in the Battle of the Atlantic to deliver her cargoes of food, tanks, trucks, ammunition, oil and other supplies vitally needed on the war front; the awesome preparations for the great invasion; D-Day; the troop landings on the beaches of Normandy; an ammo ship in the Pacific; a thirty-year lay-up. Then come back aboard to share her second life as a national landmark, a time capsule and living history museum, and join her crew on the trip of a lifetime, her celebrated voyage back to Normandy fifty years after D-Day, the last survivor of the great armada. This second edition includes photos and events to the end of 2008.