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Mullet Run off Juno Beach, FL back in September.

Before James Doohan became famous playing 'Scotty' in the original Star Trek, he was a Canadian lieutenant in World War II who heroically took out German snipers during the D-Day invasion. Doohan, who died back in 2005, had enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army when he was just 19 years old. He had progressed to the rank of lieutenant with the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division by the time Allied troops invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944. Doohan and his division were tasked with taking Juno Beach on D-Day as other Allied forces, including U.S....

At the beginning of the Second World War, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 13th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Doohan went to England in 1940 for training. His first combat was the invasion of Normandy 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...

From James Doohan At the outbreak of World War II, aged 19, he joined the Royal Canadian Artillery, and was eventually commissioned as a lieutenant. His first combat assignment was the invasion of Normandy at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers along the way, Doohan's unit made its way to higher ground and took defensive positions. At 11:30 that night, he was machine-gunned, taking six hits: four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his middle right finger. The chest bullet was stopped by his silver cigarette case; he would later generally hide the amputated finger...

WPEC - CBS12.com JUNO BEACH -- Treasure hunters are eyeing a spot off the coast of Juno Beach and they believe they are very close to finding a ship that sank centuries ago. They believe the ship was heavy with gold and silver, and they just got a permit for their search. Kyle Kennedy from Seafarer Exploration Corp., an exploration firm in Tampa, believe they are really close to finding millios of dollars worth of gold and silver near the Juno Beach pier. They are looking for a Spanish ship which they believe sank in about 50-feet of water off...

Okay, so I am looking at some photographs taken of D-Day, June 6, 1944, when the American, British, and Canadian armies landed in France. Most of the photographs are the usual standard routine seen-them-before photographs, but there are a couple of them, involving the Canadians landing on "Juno" beach, where these guys, instead of coming ashore bearing weapons, are carrying bicycles. Yes, bicycles, hundreds and hundreds of Canadians with bicycles, wading ashore under gun-fire. The text does not explain why. So then.....what were the Canadians doing with bicycles, and did such instruments have any effect on how the invasion went?