Hello elwood796 and thank you for your question.
Having re-read your question I think the following answers your
specific question "Can you give me a list of the Liberty ships
involved in this invasion?" I have added additional information
regarding the "Charles Fort" but as you will see from the list, she is
not listed as being involved in the landings on any of the beaches.
Liberty ships that took part in the D-Day landings 6th June 1944:
1. A. Frank Lever 1943 Liberty
2. A. Mitchell Palmer 1944 Liberty, loading in June
3. Abiel Foster 1942 Liberty
4. Abraham Clark 1942 Liberty, loading in June
5. Albert P. Ryder 1943 Liberty, loading in June
6. Amos G. Throop 1942 Liberty
7. Arthur R. Lewis 1944 Liberty, loading in June
8. Arthur Sewall 1944 Liberty
9. Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1944 Liberty, loading in June
10. Bartholomew Gosnold 1943 Liberty, loading in June
11. Belva Lockwood 1943 Liberty
12. Benito Juarez 1943 Liberty, loading in June
13. Benjamin H. Bristow 1943 Liberty, loading in June
14. Benjamin Hawkins 1942 Liberty
15. Benjamin Holt 1943 Liberty, loading in June
16. Casimir Pulaski 1943 Liberty
17. Charles C. Jones 1943 Liberty
18. Charles D. Poston 1943 Liberty
19. Charles Henderson 1943 Liberty, loading in June
20. Charles M. Hall 1942 Liberty
21. Charles Morgan 1943 Liberty -- Bombed and sunk on June 10
22. Charles Sumner 1943 Liberty
23. Charles W. Eliot 1943 Liberty -- Sunk by mine on June 28
24. Charles Willson Peale 1942 Liberty
25. Christopher S. Flanagan 1944 Liberty, loading in June
26. Clara Barton 1942 Liberty
27. Clinton Kelly 1943 Liberty
28. Clyde L. Seavey 1943 Liberty
29. Collis P. Huntington 1942 Liberty
30. Cotton Mather 1942 Liberty
31. Cyrus H. Mccormick 1942 Liberty
32. Cyrus H.K. Curtis 1943 Liberty
33. Dan Beard 1943 Liberty
34. Daniel Hiester 1942 Liberty, loading in June
35. David Caldwell 1943 Liberty
36. David Starr Jordan 1943 Liberty
37. Edward D. White 1943 Liberty
38. Edward Kavanagh 1944 Liberty, loading in June
39. Edward M. House 1943 Liberty -- Torpedoed by U-boat [U-984] on
June 29, damaged and flooded but completed voyage
40. Edward Rowland Sill 1942 Liberty, loading in June
41. Edward W. Scripps 1943 Liberty
42. Edwin Abbey 1943 Liberty
43. Edwin L. Drake 1943 Liberty
44. Elihu Root 1943 Liberty
45. Elmer A. Sperry 1942 Liberty
46. Enoch Train 1943 Liberty
47. Ephraim Brevard 1943 Liberty
48. Ephraim W. Baughman 1943 Liberty, loading in June
49. Eugene E. O'Donnell 1943 Liberty
50. Ezra Weston 1943 Liberty
51. Fisher Ames 1942 Liberty, loading in June
52. Florence Crittenton 1943 Liberty
53. Francis Asbury 1943 Liberty
54. Francis C. Harrington 1943 Liberty -- Damaged by mine June 7
55. Francis Drake 1942 Liberty
56. Frank B. Kellogg 1942 Liberty
57. Frank R. Stockton 1943 Liberty
58. G. W. Goethals 1942 Liberty
59. George A. Custer 1942 Liberty, loading in June
60. George Dewey 1943 Liberty
61. George Durant 1943 Liberty
62. George E. Badger 1943 Liberty
63. George E. Pickett 1943 Liberty
64. George G. Crawford 1944 Liberty
65. George Steers 1944 Liberty
66. George Whitefield 1943 Liberty
67. George Wythe 1942 Liberty
68. Glenn Curtiss 1943 Liberty, loading in June
69. H. G. Blasdel 1943 Liberty -- Torpedoed by U-boat [U-984] on June
29, cargo saved, ship total loss
70. Hannibal Hamlin 1943 Liberty
71. Harold T. Andrews 1944 Liberty, loading in June
72. Harry Percy 1943 Liberty
73. Henry Austin 1943 Liberty
74. Henry M. Rice 1943 Liberty
75. Henry Miller 1943 Liberty, loading in June
76. Henry S. Lane 1943 Liberty
77. Henry W. Grady 1943 Liberty
78. Henry Wynkoop 1942 Liberty
79. Herman Melville 1942 Liberty
80. Horace Gray 1943 Liberty
81. Horace Williams 1943 Liberty
82. Hutchinson I. Cone 1943 Liberty
83. Ignace Paderewski 1943 Liberty, loading in June
84. Ignatius Donnelly 1943 Liberty
85. J. D. Ross 1943 Liberty
86. J. E. B. Stuart 1942 Liberty
87. J. Warren Keifer 1943 Liberty
88. J. Willard Gibbs 1943 Liberty, loading in June
89. Jacques Cartier 1943 Liberty, loading in June
90. James A. Farrel 1943 Liberty -- Torpedoed by U-boat [U-984] on
June 29, cargo saved, ship total loss
91. James B. Weaver 1943 Liberty -- Shot down a glider bomb on June 10
92. James Caldwell 1942 Liberty
93. James E. Haviland 1943 Liberty, loading in June
94. James I. Mckay 1943 Liberty
95. James L. Ackerson 1944 Liberty
96. James R. Randall 1943 Liberty
97. James Woodrow 1942 Liberty
98. Jane G. Swisshelm 1943 Liberty
99. Jane Long 1943 Liberty
100. Jedediah S. Smith 1943 Liberty
101. Jeremiah O'Brien 1943 Liberty
102. Jesse Applegate 1942 Liberty
103. Jim Bridger 1942 Liberty
104. John A. Campbell 1943 Liberty
105. John A. Sutter 1942 Liberty
106. John A. Treutlen 1944 Liberty -- Torpedoed by U-984, cargo saved,
ship total loss
107. John C. Fremont 1941 Liberty, loading in June
108. John E. Sweet 1944 Liberty
109. John E. Ward 1943 Liberty
110. John F. Steffen 1943 Liberty
111. John G. Whittier 1942 Liberty
112. John Grier Hibben 1943 Liberty, loading in June
113. John Hay 1943 Liberty
114. John Henry 1942 Liberty
115. John L. Elliott 1944 Liberty, loading in June
116. John Merrick 1943 Liberty
117. John R. Park 1943 Liberty
118. John S. Mosby 1943 Liberty
119. John Sharp Williams 1943 Liberty, loading in June
120. John Steele 1942 Liberty
121. Joseph A. Brown 1943 Liberty
122. Joseph E. Johnston 1942 Liberty
123. Joseph Pulitzer 1942 Liberty
124. Joseph Story 1942 Liberty
125. Joseph W. Folk 1943 Liberty, loading in June
126. Joshua B. Lippincott 1943 Liberty
127. Joshua W. Alexander 1943 Liberty, loading in June
128. Josiah Nelson Cushing 1943 Liberty
129. Juan Flaco Brown 1943 Liberty
130. Julius Rosenwald 1943 Liberty
131. Lee S. Overman 1943 Liberty
132. Lewis Morris 1942 Liberty
133. Lou Gehrig 1943 Liberty
134. Louis Kossuth 1943 Liberty
135. Louis Marshall 1943 Liberty
136. Lucien B. Maxwell 1943 Liberty
137. Lucius Q.C. Lamar 1943 Liberty
138. Lucy Stone 1943 Liberty
139. Lyman Hall 1943 Liberty
140. Mahlon Pitney 1943 Liberty, loading in June
141. Matthew T. Goldsboro 1943 Liberty
142. Melville Jacoby 1944 Liberty
143. Nathan Towson 1943 Liberty, loading in June
144. Nathaniel Bacon 1942 Liberty, loading in June
145. Oliver Evans 1943 Liberty
146. Oliver Wolcott 1942 Liberty
147. Omar E. Chapman 1943 Liberty
148. Park Benjamin 1944 Liberty
149. Pearl Harbor 1942 Liberty
150. Peregrine White 1943 Liberty
151. R. Ney McNeely 1944 Liberty, loading in June
152. Richard Henry Lee 1941 Liberty
153. Robert E. Peary 1942 Liberty
154. Robert Henri 1944 Liberty
155. Robert Jordan 1943 Liberty, loading in June
156. Robert L. Vann 1943 Liberty
157. Robert Lansing 1943 Liberty
158. Robert Lowry 1943 Liberty
159. Robert Toombs 1943 Liberty
160. Roger Griswold 1943 Liberty, loading in June
161. Royal S. Copeland 1944 Liberty
162. Sam Houston II 1943 Liberty
163. Samuel Chase 1942 Liberty, loading in June
164. Samuel Colt 1942 Liberty
165. Samuel McIntyre 1943 Liberty
166. Simon Newcomb 1943 Liberty
167. Stanton H. King 1944 Liberty
168. Stephen B. Elkins 1943 Liberty
169. Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1942 Liberty, loading in June
170. Thomas Hartley 1942 Liberty
171. Thomas J. Jarvis 1943 Liberty
172. Thomas Kearns 1943 Liberty
173. Thomas Scott 1942 Liberty
174. Thomas Wolfe 1943 Liberty
175. Walter Hines Page 1943 Liberty
176. Washington Allston 1944 Liberty, loading in June
177. Webb Miller 1943 Liberty
178. Will Rogers 1942 Liberty
179. Willard Hall 1943 Liberty
180. William A. Jones 1943 Liberty
181. William C. Endicott 1942 Liberty, loading in June
182. William Carson 1943 Liberty
183. William H. Prescott 1942 Liberty, loading in June
184. William Kent 1942 Liberty, loading in June
185. William L. Marcy 1942 Liberty
186. William N. Pendleton1943 Liberty -- Unexploded Bomb Reported
Aboard June 18
187. William Pepperell 1943 Liberty, loading in June
188. William Phips 1943 Liberty
189. William Thornton 1943 Liberty, loading in June
190. William Tilghman 1942 Liberty
191. William Tyler Page 1943 Liberty
192. William W. Loring 1944 Liberty
193. William Windom 1943 Liberty, loading in June
Blockships -- Ships deliberately sunk to form artificial harbors
194. Benjamin Contee 6/8/44, Liberty 1942
195. George S. Wasson 6/8/44, Liberty 1943
196. George W. Childs 6/8/44, Liberty 1943
197. James Iredell 6/8/44, Liberty 1942
198. James W. Marshall 6/8/44, Liberty 1942
199. Matt W. Ransom 6/8/44, Liberty 1943
The above information was taken from the U.S. Merchant Marine website:
http://www.usmm.org/normandyships.html#anchor2101074
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If we look at the website below, we can find out a little more
information regarding the Charles Fort.
"Liberty Ships, Master List of Names"
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~pt/liberty/liberty_list.html
Name Yard MCE Builder Way Keel Laid Launched
Delivered
Charles Fort CA 2548 273 13 20-Nov-43 17-Dec-43
31-Dec-43
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~pt/liberty/liberty_listC.html
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History of the "Charles Fort"
"1943 WSA (Seas Shipping Co, NY)
1947 EMANCIPATOR, Cia Nav.del Caribe.- Panamanian flag. (Lemos &
Pateras, London)
1947 Cia.Nav.Transpacifica, Panama (same managers)
1953 (G.Lemos Bros, London)
1961 STEFANIOS, same owners - Greek flag
12.10.64 Aground at 36.01N 05.43W, refloated and taken to Gibraltar,
CTL.
1965 Scrapped Santander."
http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/LibShipsC.html
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Also of interest:
"This is a listing of the original and completion
names of the 2710 Liberty ships built between
September 27, 1941 and September 2, 1945.
Many of the pictures displayed are peacetime pictures
and show the ships with a different name and without
guns, but they are the ships we sailed."
http://www.armed-guard.com/ag15.html
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"On July 7, 1944, she escorted the Charles Fort off Cape Lookout, 8
miles from Buoy 14, having escorted the vessel from the Delaware
Capes."
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/tande/WSC/wsc142.html
"Later, she escorted the ,Charles Fort, carrying high explosives from
Cape Lookout to New York. Returning to Cape Lookout she became part of
Task Group 02.5 on escort duty to New York."
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/tande/WSC/wsc128.html
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I am also in contact with the National Liberty Ship Memorial to see if
they have any records regarding the Liberty ships that took part in
the Normandy landings, and in particular the Charles Fort.
"National Liberty Ship Memorial"
http://www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/membership.html
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"Click on the drawing below to see a close-up of the S. S. Jeremiah
O'Brien, the last Liberty Ship built in South Portland, Maine."
http://members.dialmaine.com/mdenis/Shipyard/
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Also of interest:
"Utah Beach Looking West D-Day Morning June 6, 1944"
http://www.normandybattlefields.com/img13_utahbeach.htm
"LST 282 Utah Beach, Normandy France June 6, 1944"
http://www.landingship.com/282/utah.htm
"Utah Beach was assigned to the US 4th Division. H-Hour, when the
attack would begin, was 6:30 A.M. The initial assault force included
rifle companies, combat engineers, and naval demolition teams. There
were also 32 amphibious tanks. Four tanks sank offshore. But 28 made
it safely to the beach.
As the first wave neared the coast, strong currents swept the boats
south. They beached 2,000 yards from the planned landing zone."
http://www.ddaymuseum.org/history/dday_history_ddayjune6.html
Thank you for your question and if you have any queries regarding my
answer do not hesitate to ask for a clarification.
Very best regards
THX1138
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"d day" "liberty ships"
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