On June 6, 1944, General Eisenhower gave the order and the brave men of the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy. One of those young men was a short Seaman 2nd class from St. Louis.
An 18 year old Yogi Berra had put his baseball career on hold a year earlier to join the Navy. He trained as a gunner’s mate and, at age 19, worked on a rocket launching boat firing at German defenses on Omaha beach during the Normandy Invasion.
“Being a young guy, you didn’t think nothing of it until you got in it.