Appointment in Normandy Author:Walter W. Jaffee SS Jeremiah O'Brien. The "trip of a lifetime" story of her 5 1/2 month 18,000-mile voyage back to Normandy for the 50th Anniversary of D-Day. The only ship from the great D-Day Armada to return in 1994, she was the "centerpiece" at the historic ceremonies in England and France.