Edited by Destroyer History Foundation from Naval Historical Center 88-199-FA.
“Usurper’s Watchtower” by Dwight Shepler #153, 1944: watercolor.
“Admiral Bryant sent word that Germans were spotting from the eleventh-century tower of the Colleville church; he wanted the tower knocked down without hurting the rest of the sacred edifice. That was a little too fine an order, even for Emmons. Her 12th shot was so near a miss as to shake the tower, and the 13th clipped it off obliquely a few yards above the arch of the west portal; part of the tower fell in the churchyard and part crushed in the nave.”
Happily, it was rebuilt following the war.
Caption source: Morison, Vol. XI, page 146. | 
