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
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