06/07/2020
D-Day 76 years later. On that day, our world and our Freedom were at stake. This is a story about two of the many who stormed the beaches at Normandy and helped the world prevail against evil. We thank you Ubert and L.C. Terrell for your service. We honor and salute you. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Seventy six years ago today brothers Ubert Terrell, 100, right, and L.C. Terrell, 98, were both invading Normandy on D-Day, one on the ground and the other by air. L.C. took out two enemy machine gun nests with hand gr***des that day. He knew he could throw accurately because he'd spent a lot of time catching and throwing balls with a minor league baseball player he'd known before the war. He successfully lobbed a gr***de into the nest, but only after crawling up the beach on his belly. Ubert, who was fluent in Cajun French, Spanish, and Italian, carried out five covert missions to gather intelligence for D-Day by parachuting into occupied France by night and meeting up with members of the French underground. That’s in addition to him flying over Normandy to help deliver paratroopers onto the battlefield. Not bad for two country boys from Louisiana. Photo by Chris Granger https://www.nola.com/news/northshore/article_17eac652-a6ac-11ea-8385-7faf9b43a92f.html
