Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

The existence of the MV Cape Henlopen almost makes we want to go to New York just to take a ride on her. Almost.

A great article about an underwater archeological survey done in areas off of Omaha and Utah beaches from 2000-2002. It mentions some of the ships in Felton's video.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2009/june/underwater-navy-normandy

Good stuff.

HMS Medusa (ML 1837)
ML 1392
USS Threat
USS Laffey
USS Texas
HMS Belfast
S130 (German E boat)
PA 26-15 (Higgins Boat)
British LCT 7074
LST 279, 375, 393, 510 (still a working ferry!)
Tugs LT-5, LT-4
SS Jeremiah O'Brien
Light Vessel 72

The after war stories are also interesting

One of the things I find interesting about NEPTUNE is the relative paucity of actual warships - destroyer and larger combatants - compared to Operation FORAGER, the invasion of Saipan, which happened later in June.

NEPTUNE had a total of 6 battleships - 3 American, 3 British. And the American battleships - USS Arkansas, USS Texas, and USS Nevada - were 3 of the 4 oldest battleships the USN had. (USS New York was conducting training in the States)

Nimitz sent FOURTEEN battleships to the FORAGER party. Granted, some of those were the fast battleships that spent a chunk of their time playing air defender for the carriers, but IIRC there were still eight of the older, pre-war battlewagons whose main job was shore bombardment.

Now, one thing OVERLORD had was that the landing areas were within range of land based aircraft, including the heavies from 8th AF and Bomber Command. While naval gunfire excelled at putting sustained bombardment on a target, the heavies couldn't be beat for putting a huge amount of explosives on a target in a very short period of time.