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- Yogi Berra, D-Day vet, honored on 70th anniversary
Seventy years ago, a 19-year-old from St. Louis was on a small attack boat launching rockets at the Germans during the Allied invasion of Normandy. Lawrence Peter Berra, a minor league baseball player who would later become known worldwide as Yogi, emerged unscathed from that bloody day. It was amazing going in, all the guys over there.'' Berra, who went on to win 10 World Series titles with the ...
June 6, 2014 - The Associated Press via Yahoo! Sports - D-Day vet Yogi Berra honored on anniversary
Seventy years ago, a 19-year-old from St. Louis was on a small attack boat launching rockets at the Germans during the Allied invasion of Normandy. Lawrence Peter Berra, a minor league baseball player who would later become known worldwide as Yogi, emerged unscathed from that bloody day. Now 89 years old, Berra was honored Friday by the New Jersey museum that bears his name, as well as by the ...
June 6, 2014 - Daily Herald