Looks like he always looked good in a unitorm!
He’s been called “The craziest pilot in the Canadian forces” during the war. Once was grounded for flying TOO extreme.
Doohan was always self conscious about the mangled hand. If you see him in Star Trek, he always manages to hide that hand from the camera.
I heard he was a genius with accents. He could do any accent and they finally decided on the Scottish one because of the Scots contribution to engineering. I think besides getting his finger shot off he was also shot 4 times in the leg and once in the chest and was saved by a silver lighter his brother gave him.
-Mel Brooks
-Charles Durning (both survived Omaha Beach and the Malmedy Massacre.
-Benny Hill
-Yogi Berra
-Sir Alec guiness (Obi Wan Kenobe)
-J.D. Salinger
Bttt
1. The bombing mission to strike the Wermacht defenses and simultaneously provide craters on the beach for cover - failed.
2. Most of the DD-Shermans in the 1st waves foundered - no mobile beach artillery - failed.
3. The rocket barrages from Allied ships fell short of the beaches - failed.
4. Those USN destroyers (and probably some Brits as well) saved the day when they defied orders and closed to within 800 yds of the beach to place fire on observable targets.
5. No mention of the "Beast of Omaha" on this show. But he was mentioned last night on another D-Day show. If Heinrich Severloh's story is close to accurate, he was personally responsible for >2,000 U.S. casualties at Omaha.