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82 years ago today, June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan of Vancouver, led D Company of Royal Winnipeg Rifles ashore at Juno beach. He would be shot 6 times, survive and go on to become Scotty on Star Trek.

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C.W. Williams 🇺🇦 🌊🇨🇦🦑🇬1d ago

@MarkHoltom
Among his many other accomplishments, he was a hot pilot.
From Wikipedia:
Doohan graduated from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with eleven other Canadian artillery officers[ and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 (AOP) Squadron, RCAF as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of 1st Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery. (1)

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C.W. Williams 🇺🇦 🌊🇨🇦🦑🇬1d ago

@MarkHoltom
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All three Canadian (AOP) RCAF squadrons were crewed by artillery officer-pilots and accompanied by non-commissioned RCA and RCAF personnel serving as observers. Although he was never actually a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Doohan was once labelled the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force"

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C.W. Williams 🇺🇦 🌊🇨🇦🦑🇬

@MarkHoltom
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In the late spring of 1945, on Salisbury Plain north of RAF Andover, he slalomed a plane between telegraph poles "to prove it could be done", earning himself a serious reprimand. (Various accounts cite the plane as a Hurricane or a jet trainer; however, it was an Auster Mark IV.)