“Yogi Berra was one of the few who was in the front lines & didn’t so much as get a scratch.”
Actually Yogi did get scratched:
“During the invasion, Berra manned a landing craft support vessel from which he said he “sprayed bullets and rockets across the heavily fortified beach fronts before the troops landed.”
“Berra was wounded in the hand by incoming enemy fire; he was later awarded the Purple Heart Medal.”
His ship was off Utah Beach.
“Sports Heroes Who Served: From D-Day Vet to Baseball Legend”
Another famous D Day invader was the Beat Generation poet and City Lights bookstore owner and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
As commanding officer the 25 year old Ferlinghetti was at the helm of a submarine chaser, SC 1308, in the D-Day landing on the coast of Normandy in 1944.
He went to jail to fight for free speech to have Howl and other books allowed——while saying he couldn’t personally defend the views and language of the book but sank thousands of dollars into fighting censorship of unpopular ideas.
He died in 2021 at age 101.