I heard the same interview on NPR, the sailor was none other than Yogi
Berra. (When you come to a fork in the road, take it")
Hank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pedersen, Norm (C)" <norm.pedersen@connext.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] D Day, tanks and a quip
> I heard a radio interview this morning with a man who was offshore on
D-Day
> in an LCSS [which evidently is a landing craft equiped to shell the German
> mortar and machinegun emplacements on shore]. I forget the military
> definition for LCSS but he said they called them Landing Craft Suicide
> Squad. They were shelling the positions prior to the landing. His
comment
> was that "it was kinda like the 4th of July" !! And when the DJ asked
about
> being hit in the shoulder by a machinegun round he said "it hurt a
little".
>
> Those guys sure have my respect.
>
> Norm Pedersen
> no MV yet but looking.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry J. Fackovec [mailto:fackovec@radiotech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:01 PM
> To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
> Subject: [MV] D Day, tanks and a quip
>
>
> Hey All:
>
> I am surprised to see no one making note of the anniversary of D Day.
>
> I ran across a short article in the Boston Herald last week, about the
tanks
> that were lost fording ashore during the invasion. In true Herald fashion
> there were few details, but they reported that there was a team working on
> documenting and recovering the tanks. They report that there is one
section
> of the sea floor that looks like a squadron of tanks is in perfect
formation
> just waiting the order to move out...
>
> As a personal note, My father was a Merchant Marine and was bringing in
> troops during the first wave of the invasion, when I asked him for his
> thoughts about the greatest armada the world had ever seen assembled and
the
> invasion, In his usual underplaying manner he said his only impression of
D
> day was it was "kind of loud" <G>. To meet my father you would understand:
> He was torpedoed in the North Atlantic and spent several days floating on
a
> raft, and his impression of that was that it was "a little inconvenient
> <LOL>. (And I get pissy when the Starbucks foams instead of froths my
latte.
> LOL).
>
> Humbly submitted,
>
> Hank Fackovec
>
>
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