Leonard Lomell’s obituary:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/leonard_lomell_d-day_hero_from.html
Thermite grenades melted the gears in the traversing and elevating mechanisms of the guns. Excellent!
Someone once said “Where do we get such men?”
I used to see Bud Lomell at the Veterans’ Day ceremonies and Memorial Day ceremonies in Toms River, NJ.
I did not know of his role in D-Day until much later.
The fate of millions of people, both present and future in 1944, rested on the actions of a handful of men on June 6, 1944.
Bud Lomell was at the the head of that handful.