D-Day Memories From Yogi Berra

This video is three years old, but still poignant.  In June of 1944, the man who would later become famous as the New York Yankees catcher (and still later their manager) was a low-ranking naval sailor awaiting the start of the invasion of Normandy, having volunteered and trained for duty on a rocket boat.  These boats, each with a 6-man crew, would move toward the beaches in front of the infantry riding aboard landing craft, in order to launch their rockets at the German positions.

Read more about Berra's experience at The Tablet.