Yogi Berra spent D-Day on a 36-foot long boat just off the Normandy coast that lobbed rockets inland in support of the troops on the beaches.
He remembered getting in some trouble then: "I kept coming up top to look around, and they kept telling me to get back down there or I'd get hit. I just wanted to see what was going on. I liked it more up there!"
Yogi also served in North Africa and Italy before eventually returning to the States to Groton, Connecticut where he joined the submarine base's baseball team; when the club played against the Major League New York Giants. In that game, Yogi, a Yankee minor-leaguer, went 3-for-4.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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