★★★ Memorial Monday ★★★
Captain Norman Ives, USN '20 was lost on this date (August 2) in 1944, in perhaps one of the oddest naval actions of the European theater of the war. He was the director of the recently-captured port of Cherbourg, France, and leading a reconnaissance party of nearly 100 sailors (and four war correspondents) towards the town of St. Malo, which Captain Ives had been told was secured by American forces. In fact, it was still held by 500 German paratroops. The party wandered into an ambush that killed Norman and six others over the course of a three-hour firefight.
Norman was an accomplished submarine officer, and in 1931 was awarded the Navy Cross for his years-long efforts to create and improve submarine rescue devices and designs.
He was survived by his wife, daughter, and son.
To Honor! ⚓
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