Yogi Berra recounted his experience as a 19-year-old U.S. Navy seaman first class in this 1984 article. Later, an 89-year old Berra was honored on the 70th anniversary of that fateful day. Berra was among several well-known athletes involved in D-Day and World War II. Danny Ozark, a second baseman signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and assigned to their Lackawanna, NY Class D farm team shared his experience as an infantryman landing on Omaha Beach.