We aim to be the best of the best and we volunteered to be the best of the best. When you volunteered for rangers, what changed from your training as a regular army soldier . Aonard i have to go to ranger school, to begin with, that specialized in many things regular troops do not have to submit to. It is altogether different, a specialized field, a specialized mission, and you have to cope and train for that mission or whatever it may be. When did you actually Enter Service . June of at was in 1940 two. Right after pearl harbor. Your first combat action, was that in normandy . Leonard my first combat action, yes. About,dont you tell me from your training in the states , tell me about your trip over to england and the preparation you made for the normandy invasion. Lomell i have to tell you that from my point of view, because i dont think the troops of which i was a part of had any knowledge, advanced knowledge, that dday would be our first combat. ,e were ready for combat then but the
But the weather was good. We never want it too warm. It feels warmer especially if you are blocked from the wind. San francisco we are starting out with another overcast day and fog out there and temperatures within a few degrees of where we were yesterday morning. Our morning trend continues getting into the afternoon in San Francisco expected to get into the upper 60s. Temperatures outside our door where we look at San Francisco at 56 degrees. Oakland at 61 and weve got livermore and san jose checking into the upper 50s. Partly to mostly cloudy skies. Cool conditions. Onshore breeze at fairfield not quite as strong and et miles an hour reported sustained and coming in from the north and coming in from the west over areas of napa at 7 Miles Per Hour or so. The cloud cover is filling in and thats where we stand this morning. Mostly cloudy skies over the north bay. East bay through livermore but you get over to antioch you look like you are getting into a soggy start. San jose starting
Training as a regular army soldier . Mr. Lomell i have to go to a ranger school, to begin with, that specialized in many things regular troops do not have to submit to. It is altogether different, a specialized field, a specialized mission, and you have to cope and train for that mission or whatever it may be. When did you actually Enter Service . Mr. Lomell that was in june of 1942. Right after pearl harbor. Your first combat action, was that in normandy . Mr. Lomell my first combat action, yes. Why dont you tell me about, from your training in the states, tell me about your trip over to england and the preparation you made for the normandy invasion. Mr. Lomell i have to tell you that from my point of view, because i dont think the troops of which i was a part of had any knowledge, advanced knowledge, that dday would be our first combat. We were ready for combat then, but they were going to give us specialized training, so the training i got after i entered the rangers was generalized
When you volunteer for rangers, what changed from your training as a regular army soldier . They specialize in many things bigger troops do not have to submit to. Different, aer specialized field, a specialized cope. N and you have to when did you Enter Service . Of 42. As in june was that in normandy . My first combat action. Yes. Why dont you tell me about from your training, tell me about your trip over to england and the preparation you made. I have to tell you that from my point of view, because i had anyink the troops advanced knowledge that dday would be our first combat. Then,e ready for combat but they were going to give specialized training, so the training we got after i entered generalizedwas ranger tactics and ranger training. Referring to any particular place we may have trained while we were there, i will explain a few. Tell me where the rangers. Rained dont go too fast. We were at camp forrest tennessee. We came from different parts of the bases, different parts of the
I may say, of the extent to which that history is being taught in our schools and colleges. Particularly in our schools. The ignorance of the history of our country and particularly of its military history is being widely ignored and thats got to be fixed. And one of the best people to fix it, of course, is our speaker this morning, alex kershaw. We feel in this 75th year of the anniversary of dday, particularly close to what we call the greatest generation, on memorial day we honored americans who had paid the supreme sacrifice in all of our wars. But weve always felt a particular closeness to what we call the greatest generation many of whom are slowly passing from the scene. Steven ambrose, biographer said the quality of character that we impute to them is one which has grown increasingly rare in our culture. Namely, modesty. More than one of these gentlemen is said to me that when people thank him for his service, he is embarrassed. He thanks them for their thanks. But what else wo