Brian Williams’ uncle?
Real heroes tend to downplay their accomplishments, that should have been the first red flag.
If he had been UDT, he could have used the label SEAL.
All UDT can call themselves SEALs, since a few years ago.
Here is a 2013 article on him titled “The original Navy SEAL”
Local veteran regales with fascinating wartime tales that inspired 1951 film
Here is a quote from him “I know I’m considered a hero, and I don’t feel like it, but most heroes don’t,” he said during a recorded video interview nine years ago for the Library of Congress. “They just say I am.”
There is no North China Sea. And even if there was his tale of serving in the European Theater and the Pacific Theater is not credible.
There reportedly is a saying among combat veterans that “Those who talk the most have seen the least”
One of the greatest seldom told stories of WWII was of the Italian frogmen. When I was in the fifth grade our teacher would order paperback books for us for only 50 cents each. I ordered one about the Italian frogmen and was amazed at how effective they had been.
One thing I recall is their sinking a British battleship with limpet mines.
Other than that book I don’t recall ever hearing anything about them.
Did I ever tell you about how I was drafted at the age of 11 and earned a battlefield commission in Vietnam. I was a colonel at the age of 14. After my secret mission to Cambodia with John Kerry I met Raquel Welch at the Bob Hope show. I spent hours taking a bubble bath with Raquel and blah blah blah...../s
Sad. 89 years old, most of it lived as a part of an ongoing lie, affecting everyone around him:
“Goehner’s own son told the I-Team that he heard the same war stories all his life and it’s a shock. He’s trying to figure out what this means for the family”
“Goehner told the audience that his suicide missions earned him the Navy Cross, three Silver Stars, and four Purple Hearts. “
Surprised he isn’t an Octo-amputee...
Best comment:
“..., I was the 3rd most decorated veteran of WW2. I actually saved Audie Murphy’s life once. I was also the door gunner on the Enola Gay and did you ever see that pic of the Marines planting the flag on Mount Suribachi? That was my idea. I didn’t want all the glory, so I just took the picture.
I’m available for speaking engagements, all expenses paid, of course....>
Dude must be a Freeper and I’ll bet his name is “humble...”
LOL
Just teasing you man, erh, whatever you call yourself these days after Christy Jenner one upped you.
LOL!!!
(donning Nomex suit)
I was wounded in CONUS by a communist female. She broke my heart.
During an hour-long interview on Monday, Goehner’s son, Victor, 60, who is the elder Goehner’s caretaker, said his father has a long history of embellishing, fabricating and boasting of things that are not true, such as being wealthy.
Victor Goehner said he is uncertain if the war stories he has heard all his life are true or false or partly true.
He produced copies of his father’s naval separation document and discharge certificates. The former, dated May 1, 1946 shows the elder Goehner served in the Pacific, European and African theaters of war and was honorably discharged as an S1c, or “Seaman First Class.”
He enlisted in December 1943 and, after leaving active duty, served honorably in the naval reserves until 1954, according to the document.
So it appears that he is a WWII Vet, served in three different theaters of war and even his son calls him a BS'er
John Kerry’s mentor?
There’s no POS like an old POS.
“War Stories and Fairy Tales”, no difference.....
This is sad. My own father told me some things about serving in WWII. But the stories my sister related that he told her are FAR different. Who knows where the truth lays?