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Also, WWII Gunner's Mate 1st Class Lawrence Berra, USN, providing gunship support 100 yards from Omaha Beach.

Fascinating... I will remember that when I am there a few days after the Bills game in October.

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Also, WWII Gunner's Mate 1st Class Lawrence Berra, USN, providing gunship support 100 yards from Omaha Beach.

 

You know, I can't find a single coherent source for his wartime service. The only thing I can confirm is that he was a Gunner's Mate with the USS Bayfield (which would not have been 100 yards offshore) for Overlord and Dragoon, and was got a Purple Heart in Dragoon. Aside from that...stories have him on the Bayfield, detached from the Bayfield, in Italy, Groton CT, Iwo. It's weird. No two sources I've seen tell the same story.

 

I wonder what Yogi's last words were.

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Knowing Yogi, his final words were probably something like "and THAT will be my last word......"

 

 

You know, I can't find a single coherent source for his wartime service. The only thing I can confirm is that he was a Gunner's Mate with the USS Bayfield (which would not have been 100 yards offshore) for Overlord and Dragoon, and was got a Purple Heart in Dragoon. Aside from that...stories have him on the Bayfield, detached from the Bayfield, in Italy, Groton CT, Iwo. It's weird. No two sources I've seen tell the same story.

 

I wonder what Yogi's last words were.

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You know, I can't find a single coherent source for his wartime service. The only thing I can confirm is that he was a Gunner's Mate with the USS Bayfield (which would not have been 100 yards offshore) for Overlord and Dragoon, and was got a Purple Heart in Dragoon. Aside from that...stories have him on the Bayfield, detached from the Bayfield, in Italy, Groton CT, Iwo. It's weird. No two sources I've seen tell the same story.

 

I wonder what Yogi's last words were.

 

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ber0int-3

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5210564/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/yogi-berra-was-d-day/

 

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In 1950 he played in 151 games and 12 strikeouts the entire season. in his 19 year career, 414 career strikeouts; that's a touch under 23 strikeouts a season. How amazing and impossible is that?

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