Posted on 06/06/2019 2:34:36 PM PDT by RummyChick
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. and British troops, focused on other nearby landing points.
James Doohan became famous playing 'Scotty' in the original Star Trek +5 Prior to that he was a Canadian lieutenant in World War II +5 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
He managed to take out two German snipers when he successfully led his men across the beach without setting off any of the planted mines.
'I don't know if they were killed or wounded but it shut them up,' Doohan told the New York Times back in 1998.
While Doohan wasn't injured during the initial invasion, he was accidentally shot six times by a fellow Canadian serviceman later that evening when he was walking back to his post.
Doohan suffered gunshot wounds to the leg, his hand and chest.
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Maybe they meant a (9mm) Sten gun?
And they say cigarettes will kill you. Saved his life.
Had to be. A stout cigarette case could alter the path of a 9mm.
My dad told me about a guy he knew who took a couple 9mm rounds to the chest in the Ardennes, and thought it hugely unfair that two to the chest wasn’t a million dollar wound, even though a bandoleer and heavy clothing and a can of food saved him, at least that time.
Great screen name, BTW.
Wasn’t Scotty’s ashes to be sent into orbit but the rocket self destructed on ascent?
Kilo was a Marine for 2+ years... He broke his sternum in a mountain bike accident... And got a medical discharge... He never deployed into any combat theater. He probably gets a disability check still... I don’t think he qualifies as a Scotty
Silver is pretty maleable, plus it probably had cigs in it as well!...............
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