For D-Day, Admiral Morton Deyo chose the Nevada to serve as the "fighting battleship" where the officer would command Operation Neptune and also be directly involved by firing its guns at German shoreline defenses as Allied troops landed at Utah Beach.
During the shoreline battle, the Nevada's guns took out 71 German tanks with the help of inland spotter planes.
Dick Ramsey said that in the early morning of D-Day, airplanes from the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions of the U.S. Army Air Corps dropped paratroopers behind enemy lines on France's Normandy region with the Nevada training its naval guns towards German targets.
"We became field artillery for the 101st and 82nd," Ramsey said. "We arrived at 1 a.m. in the morning. We could see all the paratrooper planes coming and going."
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