Posted on 06/06/2014 1:01:59 PM PDT by Dallas59
If Scotty only had a phaser....
I didn’t know that he gave the Nazis the finger. RIP with the other heroes.
I thought a tribble had bitten him.
Julia Child (1912-2004). After Pearl Harbor she tried to join the Navy but was rejected as too tall. She joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) instead and began her WWII career in Washington working directly for Gen William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan, the OSS chief. In 1944 she was posted to Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where she handled highly classified communications for the OSS’s clandestine stations in Asia, and where she met her future husband, a high-ranking OSS cartographer. She was later posted to China where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
J.D Salinger — The author of The Catcher in the Rye stormed Utah Beach on D-Day, according to Biography.com. In fact, Salinger biographer Shane Salerno told NPR that Salinger “was carrying six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye when he landed on D-Day.” The completed book would later go on to sell 65 million copies.
Yogi Berra — The Major League Baseball catcher, manager, and Hall of Fame member was Seaman 1st class Lawrence Berra on June 6, 1944. NBC News reports Berra “helped soften up German defenses and ran messages from Omaha Beach to Utah Beach” on that historic day.
Alec Guinness — Decades before playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, Guinness served in the Royal Navy. According to the book Duty, Honor, Applause: America’s Entertainers in World War II, Guinness was piloting a landing craft on D-Day that ferried British troops to the beaches of Normandy.
I thank Scotty for his service!
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. came ashore with a cane and a pistol at Utah Beach. He was the only general to lead his troops ashore by sea. They landed a mile away from where they should have been. He found the right place and said, “We’ll start the war from right here!”
I read a Star Trek book from one of the writers who said Gene Roddenberry tried convincing at the time his then girlfriend Majel Barrett to have a threesome with Nichelle Nichols.
That is, in the FIRST WAVE of troops, sorry.
Thanks Dallas59.
And promptly died of a heart attack
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001150/
James Doohan was born on March 3, 1920 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada as James Montgomery Doohan. He is known for his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek (1966) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). He was married to Wende Doohan, Anita Yagel and Janet Young. He died on July 20, 2005 in Redmond, Washington, USA.
He also survived the Malmady massacre.
Scotty beams up, comes down;
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/05/21/james-scotty-doohan-ashes-found-in-new-mexico-mountains/
Second times the charm;
http://www.treknews.net/2012/05/22/james-doohan-ashes-final-frontier-spacex-rocket/
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