O'Donnell: Beyond Valor -- Rangers Lead the Way on D-Day
By Rick Pearcey • June 6, 2017, 10:26 AM
Bestselling military historian Patrick O'Donnell writes about D-Day, June 6, 1944, at Breitbart:
"We were about two hundred feet from the beach when a shell blew off the front of our landing craft, destroying the ramp,” recalled Ray Alm from B Company of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, which landed on Omaha's deadly Dog Green Beach at approximately 7:40 a.m. on D-Day.
"My two best buddies were right in front of me, and they were both killed. I was holding a .45 pistol and carrying a bazooka with eight shells; it was so heavy that I just went right under the water. So I had to let everything go except the shells . . . ."
