the uss emmons fired. 767 rounds, the mccook hundred and 75 is out of a thousand, and the carmack 1127, although where the 127 came from, i'm not sure sure. this now says slide shows, but no, it doesn't. so i'm moving on. so shortly before noon, the ships finally establish contact with the fire control parties on the beach who called in gunfire request gunfire support requests to the destroyer beginning about 1130 noon and 1124 spotters ashore ask the frankfurt to target a concentration of german troops behind the beach. after the first shell, the scattered, of course, shore spotting had limits to the u.s. laffey received a request for support. and when the gunnery officer asked for target coordinates, this is the answer he got in the radio transcription. we were lying on our stomachs a ditch under enemy fire can't furnish you a spot. laffey opened fire anyway, and after several the spotter radioed back whoever was shooting at us was stopped. so you must have done all right right. one of the most memorable examples, cal fire that morning occurred when army spotters near colleville-sur-