D-Day Participants of Note

• Actor Charles Durning
• Ex-Rep. Sam Gibbons (D-FL) (Parachuted in with two cans of beer to share with whomever he landed with.)
• Actor David Niven (British officer assigned to U.S. Division)
• "Lord of the Flies" author William Golding (Skippered a rocket-launching ship)
• Ernest Hemingway (Father of Mariel and Margaux Hemingway)
• Actor Art Carney (Why did Norton walk funny? Carney got shot and lost a chunk of his leg.)
• Director Sam Fuller
• Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
• O.S.S. founder Wild Bill Donovan
• Western writer Louis L'Amour (In charge of a tank destroyer)
• Sen. Strom Thurmond (Flew in on a glider)
• William Westmoreland
• Baseball great Yogi Berra