Red Onines
WWII | 6th Naval Beach Battalion
Amid the death and destruction, there was absurdity on Normandy Beach. Red Onines recalls the soldier hunkered down behind a dune, cooking a meal as the invasion raged around him. Then there was the wounded soldier he and a friend stopped to help. When they told the man they weren't doctors, he said, "Get away. I want a GI doc!" (3:23)