Posted on 06/23/2018 7:39:34 PM PDT by eastforker
Doohan did so well he became a Commissioned Lieutenant with the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. In 1940, he was sent to England for further training.
Fast forward to D-Day – the Allied Invasion of France on June 6, 1944. The British, Americans and Canadians were each assigned a portion of France’s Normandy beaches.
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Being it is the weekend I decided to post two famous veterans today.
RIP
“He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. He was sent to England in 1940 for training. He first saw combat landing at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night. Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren Gun by a nervous Canadian sentry:[10] four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother.[6] His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal on-screen during most of his career as an actor.”
From wiki. Yeesh friendly fire the night of D-day.
Freegards
I have another friendly fire coming up, Pat Tillman.
Are you going to do Jessica Lynch too? I never got a handle on what that was about either.
Freegards
She really wasn’t famous, not before and actually infamous after. Her only claim to fame is that she was a female serving in the wrong place.
I’d kinda like to read the rest but your link takes us to a site where you can buy tickets to Tankfest. Sounds cool too but not what I was hoping for.
I heard her name just as much as I did Pat Tillman’s, if I recall. I any case neither seem to be as famous as Scotty and Marshall Dillon, at least to me.
Freegards
I do not know what happened, when I posted the link, Scotty’s story was there, I checked it twice. Now I don’t know?
Amazing =>
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At the beginning of the Second World War, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery and was a member of the 14th (Midland) Field Battery, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division.[9] He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. He was sent to England in 1940 for training. He first saw combat landing at Juno Beach on D-Day.
Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night. Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren Gun by a nervous Canadian sentry:[10] four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger.
The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother.[6] His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal on-screen during most of his career as an actor.[11]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Doohan
That is the exact same article I posted from, thanks, don’t know what happened.
I stand corrected, it is the same article. Thanks for posting, sorry the site dorked up your post but hopefully folks will see the link I shared and still be able to get to it.
I was 12 years old and at a Star Trek convention. My friend has insisted we go in costume. We were probably the youngest, unaccompanied kids there. They had a kind of make shift dining area, a bunch of folding tables and plastic chairs, so we could sit and eat. My friend and I were at a big table, all to ourselves, when some said, from behind us, “do you mind if I join you?”
James Doohan could have had lunch with anyone at that con, but he decided to eat with two kids.
He talked a bit about Star Trek, but mostly spoke about serving his country. He showed us the space where his fingers were before they were blown off in the war, on D-Day. Altogether, he was a very nice, down to earth guy. He made me a Star Trek fan for life that day.
WOW! What a memory, never forgotten, you will take it to your grave.
“Where I come from, that’s soda pop”.
To which Chekov replied, “Scotch was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad.”
Do you know what scotch tastes like to me? Well, you know how you can buy vanilla extract, which is concentrated vanilla with mostly alcohol? To me, scotch tastes like concentrated puke. If that’s a man’s drink then I don’t want to be a man.
I have seen comments that she is angry at the Army for they way they built her up to get a female hero.
Granted, most heroes would say that, but many of the people built up as heroes did do often extraordinary things.
I don’t think she did anything extraordinary apart from being attacked and taken prisoner because their convoy took a wrong turn.
Doesn’t take anything away from her to say that, and I respect her for taking that stance herself.
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