• Flying SquidOPM
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    114 months ago

    Which part, the D-Day part or the Space Navy part?

    • @MrShankles
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      4 months ago

      I’ve seen his Spacy Navy docuseries before, a few times, a bunch (which was badass already), but I had no idea he was in D-day, taking out snipers and getting shot like it was out of some “Saving Private Ryan” shit… and he was a skilled pilot‽ Blew my mind today

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        4 months ago

        He really was. In fact, he lost a finger on D-Day and you can occasionally see it in various episodes, but he tried to keep it hidden most of the time.

        • @MrShankles
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          54 months ago

          I will now being looking for it every time I re-watch an episode

          • Flying SquidOPM
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            34 months ago

            I’m sure there’s some sort of YouTube supercut or something.

      • @[email protected]
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        54 months ago

        I saw him at a con in the late 80s.

        By way of concession, when responding not so enthusiastically to questions from the audience about the shenanigans Shatner and Nimoy got up to in order to blow off steam during long shooting days, Doohan said that since he’d been in real combat in WW2, he had a different approach to work and not a lot in common with them.